Indrani Medhi, 31

摘要

A student of design, Indrani Medhi has developed a design process to expand the impact of technology to those who can't read. She has developed text-free user interfaces (UIs). These are design guidelines that would allow any first-time illiterate person, on first contact with a computer, to immediately realize useful interaction with minimal or no assistance.rn"Through an ethnographic design process involving more than 400 sub-rnjects from low-income, low-literate communities across India, the Philippines, and South Africa, I discovered that there were a number of usability challenges which people experienced while interacting with traditional text-based UIs, on both mobile phones and PCs. In addition to the general inability to read text, the other major challenge was the difficulty in navigating hierarchical menus in current information architectures. I developed design rec-rnommendations for non-textual UIs for low-literate users that use combinations of voice, video, and graphics," says Medhi.