THE EXTENT OF HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION VIA SOCIAL COMPUTING WITHIN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

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PURPOSE With a correct understanding of users, their interaction infrastructures and their interaction behavior, system designers can be better equipped to build interfaces that maximize the user’s experience on any technological service. The purpose of this project is to evaluate social computing behavior in developing countries using twitter data to understand the possible role design interfaces has on these. Computing behavior is affected by the degree of availability (frequency and duration) of computing resources as well other factors such as the social and cultural environment where computing takes place. The success of an interface to address the needs of its users and to be “sensitive” to the environment (society) of the user can play a vital role in promoting various developments via computing. PROBLEM The lack of computing resources in developing countries has limited their contribution to computing. For instance, the amount of crowdsourcing in these regions is very minimal and the available data about these regions is hardly updated. This limited contribution can be attributed to the lack of technological infrastructures. There is thus the need to design interfaces that meet the unique user and infrastructural requirements that we encounter in these cross-cultural environments. Understanding the current computing behavior around the limited technology may help in developing interaction techniques and interfaces that may help intelligent interactions that will increase the contribution of citizens of these areas in crowd sourcing, and may consequently increase positive worldwide interest in these areas. RESEARCH QUESTIONS/OBJECTIVES This research will make a twofold analysis of social computing interactions: ... ... middle of paper ... ... report and presentation May 4th – May 5th Final report Bibliography Ho, M. R., Smyth, T. N., Kam , M., & Dearden, A. (2009). Human-Computer Interaction for Development: The Past, Present, and Future. Information Technologies & International Development. Honeycutt, C., & Herring, S. C. (2009). Beyond Microblogging: Conversation and Collaboration via Twitter. Forty-Second Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-42). Los Alamitos: IEEE Press. Nardi, B. A., Schiano, D. J., Gumbrecht, M., & Swartz, L. (2004). Why we blog. Commun ACM, (pp. 41-46). Smith, A., & Dunckley, L. (2007). Issues for Human-Computer Interaction in Developing Countries. San Jose, CA, USA: CHI 2007. Welser, H. T., Gu, L., Smith, M., & Lento, T. (2006). The ties that blog: Examing the relationship between social ties and continued participation in the wallop webblogging system.

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