Building social life networks through mobile interfaces : the case study of Sri Lanka farmers

Pasquale Di Giovanni; Marco Romano; Monica Sebillo; Genoveffa Tortora; Giuliana Vitiello; Tamara Ginige; Lasanthi De Silva; Jeevani Goonethilaka; Gihan Wikramanayake; Athula Ginige

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-37227-8

Building social life networks through mobile interfaces : the case study of Sri Lanka farmers

Pasquale Di Giovanni, Marco Romano, Monica Sebillo, Genoveffa Tortora, Giuliana Vitiello, Tamara Ginige, Lasanthi De Silva, Jeevani Goonethilaka, Gihan Wikramanayake, Athula Ginige

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The development of mobile applications is paramount to support users living in developing countries to improve their lives. One of the major research challenges is to develop a user interface suitable for such users. In this chapter we present the design process we applied in order to develop a mobile application oriented to farmers living in Sri Lanka. The application prototype developed so far been evaluated against usability requirements and a usability evaluation framework has been devised, which can be used to replicate the tests as the application iteratively reaches its final release. This work represents a pilot study within a wider international research project aiming to provide real-time information to support activities related to livelihood delivered using mobile phone applications targeted to meet the needs in developing countries.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Organisational Change and Information Systems: Working and Living Together in New Ways
Editors	Paolo Spagnoletti
Place of Publication	Germany
Publisher	Springer
Pages	399-408
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9783642372285
ISBN (Print)	9783642372278
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37227-8
Publication status	Published - 2013

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Di Giovanni, P., Romano, M., Sebillo, M., Tortora, G., Vitiello, G., Ginige, T., De Silva, L., Goonethilaka, J., Wikramanayake, G., & Ginige, A. (2013). Building social life networks through mobile interfaces : the case study of Sri Lanka farmers. In P. Spagnoletti (Ed.), Organisational Change and Information Systems: Working and Living Together in New Ways (pp. 399-408). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37227-8

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Building social life networks through mobile interfaces : the case study of Sri Lanka farmers. / Di Giovanni, Pasquale; Romano, Marco; Sebillo, Monica et al.
Organisational Change and Information Systems: Working and Living Together in New Ways. ed. / Paolo Spagnoletti. Germany: Springer, 2013. p. 399-408.

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