Mobile Communication Tools for a South African Deaf patient in a pharmacy context
dc.contributor.author | Chininthorn, Prangnat | |
dc.contributor.author | Glaser, Meryl | |
dc.contributor.author | Freudenthal, Adinda | |
dc.contributor.author | Tucker, William David | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-26T14:05:05Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-06-26T14:05:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper presents a case for iterative community-based co-design to facilitate the emergence of an innovative mobile system to address a potentially life-threatening scenario for Deaf people in South Africa. For Deaf people that communicate in South African Sign Language, miscommunication due to language barriers, under-education, under-employment and physiological deafness can lead to a potentially dangerous therapeutic outcome when Deaf people potentially misunderstand a pharmacist's instructions on how to take prescribed medicine. The design for a mobile communication aid to address this problem emerged from iterative cycles of action research performed with a local Deaf community that also involved pharmacists and a multi-disciplinary research team. Conventional user-centred design techniques were innovatively appropriated for the community-based co-design. The paper illustrates the community-based co-design process and points the way toward imminent implementation, as well as the potential application of the mobile solution to other scenarios in Deaf people's lives. | en_US |
dc.description.accreditation | Department of HE and Training approved list | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | SANPAD, Telkom, Cisco, Aria Technologies, THRIP | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Chininthorn, P., et al. (2012). Mobile Communication Tools for a South African Deaf patient in a pharmacy context. In P. Cunningham & M. Cunningham (eds.), Information Society Technologies - Africa (IST-Africa). Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: IIMC International Information Management Corporation | en_US |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-905824-34-2 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10566/654 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.privacy.showsubmitter | FALSE | |
dc.publisher | IIMC International Information Management Corporation | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2012 Chininthorn, et al; licensee IIMC. This file may be freely used for educational purposes, as long as it is not altered in any way. Acknowledgement of the authors and the source is required. | |
dc.status.ispeerreviewed | TRUE | |
dc.subject | ICT for eInclusion and eAccessibility | en_US |
dc.subject | eHealth & information systems | en_US |
dc.title | Mobile Communication Tools for a South African Deaf patient in a pharmacy context | en_US |
dc.type | Conference Proceedings | en_US |
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