Designing to Support Remote Working Relationships with Indigenous Communities

Mat Bettinson; Steven Bird

doi:10.1145/3520495.3520522

Designing to Support Remote Working Relationships with Indigenous Communities

Mat Bettinson, Steven Bird

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 33rd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2021
Editors	George Buchanan, Hilary Davis, Abdullah Al Mahmud, Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, Alessandro Soro, Diego Munoz, Leigh Ellen Potter, Jennyfer Lawrence Taylor, Jess Tsimeris
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	165-169
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450395984
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3520495.3520522
Publication status	Published - 30 Nov 2021
Event	33rd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2021 - Virtual, Online, Australia Duration: 30 Nov 2021 → 3 Dec 2021

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

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Conference	33rd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2021
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Virtual, Online
Period	30/11/21 → 3/12/21

Bibliographical note

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.

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Bettinson, M., & Bird, S. (2021). Designing to Support Remote Working Relationships with Indigenous Communities. In G. Buchanan, H. Davis, A. Al Mahmud, Z. Sarsenbayeva, A. Soro, D. Munoz, L. E. Potter, J. L. Taylor, & J. Tsimeris (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2021 (pp. 165-169). (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3520495.3520522

Bettinson, Mat ; Bird, Steven. / Designing to Support Remote Working Relationships with Indigenous Communities. Proceedings of the 33rd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2021. editor / George Buchanan ; Hilary Davis ; Abdullah Al Mahmud ; Zhanna Sarsenbayeva ; Alessandro Soro ; Diego Munoz ; Leigh Ellen Potter ; Jennyfer Lawrence Taylor ; Jess Tsimeris. New York : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021. pp. 165-169 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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Bettinson, M & Bird, S 2021, Designing to Support Remote Working Relationships with Indigenous Communities. in G Buchanan, H Davis, A Al Mahmud, Z Sarsenbayeva, A Soro, D Munoz, LE Potter, JL Taylor & J Tsimeris (eds), Proceedings of the 33rd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2021. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, pp. 165-169, 33rd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2021, Virtual, Online, Australia, 30/11/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3520495.3520522

Designing to Support Remote Working Relationships with Indigenous Communities. / Bettinson, Mat; Bird, Steven.
Proceedings of the 33rd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2021. ed. / George Buchanan; Hilary Davis; Abdullah Al Mahmud; Zhanna Sarsenbayeva; Alessandro Soro; Diego Munoz; Leigh Ellen Potter; Jennyfer Lawrence Taylor; Jess Tsimeris. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021. p. 165-169 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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Bettinson M, Bird S. Designing to Support Remote Working Relationships with Indigenous Communities. In Buchanan G, Davis H, Al Mahmud A, Sarsenbayeva Z, Soro A, Munoz D, Potter LE, Taylor JL, Tsimeris J, editors, Proceedings of the 33rd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2021. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2021. p. 165-169. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). doi: 10.1145/3520495.3520522

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