Design Charettesas a Resource: A

Case Study with Students at the

University of Nairobi

Susan P. Wyche, Ph.D. Candidate

Human-Centered Computing

School of Interactive Computing

Georgia Institute ofTechnology

Globi-Comp Workshop 2009

Overview

•The Study

•What are Design Charrettes?

•Preliminary Findings

•Discussion

Study: Site Selection, Participants, and

Design Charrette

•Summer 2007

•Part of a larger

project examining

religion and

technology use (see

Wych

e, A

oki, a

nd

Gri

nte

r, C

HI 2007)

Art and Design Dept. at U of N

Design Charrette

So

yo

u c

an

take t

his

sh

ap

e, it

is c

urv

ed

an

d w

ill

fit

yo

ur

han

d w

ell .

. .th

is is a

very

po

pu

lar

thin

g in

Afr

ica, an

d t

he

oth

er

[mo

bile p

ho

ne f

orm

facto

rs]

are

sh

ap

ed

lik

e a

sq

uare

bo

x, g

eo

metr

ical ,

this

is

mo

re o

f an

Afr

ican

sh

ap

e.

Discussion

•Local

Designers as a

Resource

•Understanding

the needs of

educated and

higher income

users

Acknowledgments

The students I worked with at the

University of Nairobi.

Dr. Suki Mwendwa, Director School of the

Art and Design

Paul Aoki, Intel Labs Berkeley