Title :
Visual interfaces as an approach for providing mobile services and mobile content to low literate users in South Africa
Author :
Matyila, Muzi ; Botha, Adele ; Alberts, Ronell ; Sibiya, George
Author_Institution :
Meraka Inst., Tshwane, South Africa
Abstract :
Mobile services and mobile content is available to diverse users in possession of the necessary mobile phones. However, some of the mobile services and mobile content is text intensive and this discounts low literate users in participation in the related mobile applications. Exploring typical challenges experienced by low literate users and adapting these mobile applications using visual interfaces can provide low literate users with usable access to mobile services and mobile content.
Keywords :
mobile computing; mobile handsets; user interfaces; South Africa; low literate users; mobile applications; mobile content; mobile phones; mobile services; visual interfaces; Market research; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Operating systems; Sociology; Statistics; Visualization; Mobile service; low literate user; mobile content; visual interface;
Conference_Titel :
IST-Africa Conference Proceedings, 2014
Conference_Location :
Le Meridien Ile Maurice
Print_ISBN :
978-1-905824-43-4
DOI :
10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880655