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Thursday, October 8, 2009
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Hope PC's begining
Hope PC project
This is a project envisioned by Indrani Medhi and Kentaro Toyama at Microsoft Research India.
http://research.microsoft.com/research/tem/ (Here,one can find the socio-technological projects that are being carried out by the Technology for Emerging Markets (TEM) group at Microsoft Research India)
The goal of the Hope PC project is to understand (1) what a very low-income family would want out of a PC, (2) what usability issues they might encounter, and (3) what impact a PC might have on the family’s socio-economic status and behaviors. We are providing a PC with Windows Starter Edition to a low-income family residing in a Bangalore slum community for a period of one year. Through interviews and observations, we seek to understand how the family responds to the PC.
The project has been in progress for nearly 10 months now and it is an amazing project, one that can show how a family, being the root of society, can adapt itself to the changes of modernity.
This is a project envisioned by Indrani Medhi and Kentaro Toyama at Microsoft Research India.
http://research.microsoft.com/research/tem/ (Here,one can find the socio-technological projects that are being carried out by the Technology for Emerging Markets (TEM) group at Microsoft Research India)
The goal of the Hope PC project is to understand (1) what a very low-income family would want out of a PC, (2) what usability issues they might encounter, and (3) what impact a PC might have on the family’s socio-economic status and behaviors. We are providing a PC with Windows Starter Edition to a low-income family residing in a Bangalore slum community for a period of one year. Through interviews and observations, we seek to understand how the family responds to the PC.
The project has been in progress for nearly 10 months now and it is an amazing project, one that can show how a family, being the root of society, can adapt itself to the changes of modernity.
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