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Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems archive
CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems table of contents

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

SESSION: Short Talks table of contents

Pages: 786 - 787

Year of Publication: 2002

ISBN:1-58113-454-1

Authors

Gary Marsden	University of Cape Town, South Africa
Robert Cherry	University of Cape Town, South Africa
Alan Haefele	University of Cape Town, South Africa

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SIGCAPH: ACM SIGCAPH Computers and the Physically Handicapped
SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
SIGGROUP: ACM Special Interest Group on Supporting Group Work
SIGDOC: ACM Special Interest Group for Design of Communications
SIGLINK: Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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Downloads (6 Weeks): 3, Downloads (12 Months): 25, Citation Count: 5

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ABSTRACT

This paper looks at the possibilities of taking existing digital library technology and using it for educating those who do not normally have access to the Internet. We have built a system which allows WAP devices to access an HTML based digital libary. Whilst building such a system is technically possible, our work has shown that there are a wide range of usability issues which need to be tackled. We investigate these problems, suggest improvements and outline where future research needs to take place.

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	1	Heylar, V. Usability Issues and User Perspectives of a 1st Generation WAP Service. Proceedings of the Wireless-World Symposium, 2000.
	2	http://www.cellular.co.za/
	3	Marsden, G., Cherry, R. and Haefele, R. Small Screen Access to Digital Libraries. Proceedings CHI-SA conference, 2001. (http://www.chi-sa.org.za/CHI-SA2001/proceedings.htm)
	4	Nielsen, J WAP backlash (2000) Alertbox, 09/07/2000 at http://www.useit.com/alertbox.000907
	5	Statistics-SA Census data, http://www.statssa.gov.za/
	6	Walton, M., Marsden, G. and Vukovic, V. Key challenges for project-based learning: A study of SouthAfrican student web serching strategies. Proceedings CHI-SA conference 2001 (http://www.chi-sa.org.za/CHI-SA2001/proceedings.htm)

CITED BY 5

	David Bainbridge , Steve Jones , Sam McIntosh , Matt Jones , Ian H. Witten, Portable digital libraries on an ipod, Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, June 16-20, 2008, Pittsburgh PA, PA, USA
	Gary Marsden, Using HCI to leverage communication technology, interactions, v.10 n.2, March + April 2003
	Dynal Patel , Gary Marsden, Customizing digital libraries for small screen devices, Proceedings of the 2004 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on IT research in developing countries, p.234-238, October 04-06, 2004, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa
	Raul Morales-Salcedo , Hiroaki Ogata , Yoneo Yano, Using RFID and dynamic metadata in an educational digital library, Proceedings of the 5th IASTED international conference on Web-based education, p.323-331, January 23-25, 2006, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
	Arjan Geven , Reinhard Sefelin , Manfred Tscheligi, Depth and breadth away from the desktop: the optimal information hierarchy for mobile use, Proceedings of the 8th conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services, September 12-15, 2006, Helsinki, Finland

INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
digital divide, digital libraries, mobile interaction

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Gary Marsden: colleagues

Robert Cherry: colleagues

Alan Haefele: colleagues

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