CS547 Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)
Fridays 11:30am-12:30pm PT · Gates B3 · Open to the public
Michael Graves||Rao Machiraju Apple Computer||Apple Computer Heat and Dust: Designing Solutions on the Other Side of the World
May 17, 1996
For the past year and a half, our group at Apple Computer has been investigating the role mobile computing might play in empowering the rural health workers of India. India provides preventive health care for its rural population of about 700 million people. At the village level, Auxiliary Nurse Midwives are the key mediators for all aspects of health care delivery. Our project aims at providing support tools, beginning at this village level. The work on this project is best characterized as being at the intersection of learning, organizational change, computing technology and information systems. Our design philosophy is evolutionary in nature, is led by user needs based on task specific assistance, simplicity, and ease of access and use. Organizationally, our intention is to support people's work within the context in which they are working. Technically, our prototypes are built on a Newton 2.0 platform, with connections to desktop and server systems to come. Clearly there are many ways to approach such an investigation. We will talk about our approach and address the following questions.
Our group's charter is to investigate the "any time-any place" learning paradigm and rapidly iterate proof-of-concept prototypes. |
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