Design Research- Less Literate Communities
2016-18
Context Designed and conducted primary user research and analysis to identify insights for product development and experimental studies. I explored and interacted with users who were less literate, users with visual impairment, and enterprise users within the organization for various research studies.
Outcome ( Research Papers)
Participatory Design of Vaccination Services with Less-Literate Users. HCI (30) 2017: 301-308
A Critique on Participatory Design in Developmental Context: A Case Study. HCI (11) 2017: 647-658
Coping with Accessibility Challenges for Security - A User Study with Blind Smartphone Users. INTERACT (4) 2017: 3-22
Modeling Less-Literate User's Choices of Smartphone Authentication Modes. INTERACT (4)2017: 496-500
Methods
I did field research using elicitation techniques like Contextual Inquiry, Shadowing and Rapid Ethnography Techniques. I designed and conducted participatory design workshops to collect data which contributed to the ongoing larger research at the lab.