TY - GEN
T1 - Designing to Support Remote Working Relationships with Indigenous Communities
AU - Bettinson, Mat
AU - Bird, Steven
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to the Bininj people of Northern Australia for the opportunity to live and work in their community. This research has been supported by grants from the Australian Research Council entitled Learning English and Aboriginal Languages for Work, and the Indigenous Languages and Arts Program entitled Mobile Software for Oral Language Learning in Arnhem Land, and covered by a research permit from the Northern Land Council and approvals from the board of Warddeken Land Management and the Charles Darwin University Human Research Ethics Committee.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 ACM.
PY - 2021/11/30
Y1 - 2021/11/30
N2 - Linguistic research with speakers of Aboriginal languages usually takes place though face-to-face interaction. The success of these interactions depends on relationships between scholars and Aboriginal people, relationships which are built up over an extended period. During the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have often been prevented from travelling to remote Aboriginal communities, making it difficult to sustain these relationships and continue the collaboration. We describe an appliance design for supporting consultations between outside scholars and remote community members. Requests are framed as personal invitations via a asynchronous video messaging and delivered to the remote participant via "Lingobox", a portable appliance akin to a multimedia answering machine. The device is being used with speakers of the Kunwinjku language in an extremely remote region of northern Australia.
AB - Linguistic research with speakers of Aboriginal languages usually takes place though face-to-face interaction. The success of these interactions depends on relationships between scholars and Aboriginal people, relationships which are built up over an extended period. During the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have often been prevented from travelling to remote Aboriginal communities, making it difficult to sustain these relationships and continue the collaboration. We describe an appliance design for supporting consultations between outside scholars and remote community members. Requests are framed as personal invitations via a asynchronous video messaging and delivered to the remote participant via "Lingobox", a portable appliance akin to a multimedia answering machine. The device is being used with speakers of the Kunwinjku language in an extremely remote region of northern Australia.
KW - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages
KW - Language teaching and learning
KW - Remote Collaboration
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85139104793&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://dl.acm.org/conference/ozchi/proceedings
U2 - 10.1145/3520495.3520522
DO - 10.1145/3520495.3520522
M3 - Conference Paper published in Proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:85139104793
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 165
EP - 169
BT - Proceedings of the 33rd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2021
A2 - Buchanan, George
A2 - Davis, Hilary
A2 - Al Mahmud, Abdullah
A2 - Sarsenbayeva, Zhanna
A2 - Soro, Alessandro
A2 - Munoz, Diego
A2 - Potter, Leigh Ellen
A2 - Taylor, Jennyfer Lawrence
A2 - Tsimeris, Jess
PB - Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
CY - New York
T2 - 33rd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2021
Y2 - 30 November 2021 through 3 December 2021
ER -