Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
ABSTRACT
The digitalisation of Indigenous knowledge has been challenging considering epistemological differences and the lack of involvement of indigenous people. Drawing from our community projects in Namibia we share approaches of co-designing technologies and digital presentations of indigenous knowledge.
- Emilie Maria Nybo Arendttorp, Kasper Rodil, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, and Christof Magoath. 2022. Overcoming Legacy Bias: Re-Designing Gesture Interactions in Virtual Reality With a San Community in Namibia. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1--18.Google Scholar
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- Nicola J Bidwell and Heike Winschiers-Theophilus. 2012. Extending connections between land and people digitally. In Heritage and social media: Understanding heritage in a participatory culture, Elisa Giaccardi (Ed.). Routledge.Google Scholar
- Elke Duncker. 2002. Cross-Cultural Usability of Computing Metaphors. In Proceedings Cultural Attitudes Towards Communication and Technology. 217--236.Google Scholar
- Peter Gallert and Maja van der Velden. 2015. The sum of all human knowledge? Wikipedia and indigenous knowledge. At the intersection of indigenous and traditional knowledge and technology design (2015), 117--133.Google Scholar
- Donovan Maasz, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Colin Stanley, Kasper Rodil, and Uriaike Mbinge. 2018. A digital indigenous knowledge preservation framework: The 7C model---Repositioning IK holders in the digitization of IK. In Digitisation of culture: Namibian and international perspectives. Springer, 29--47.Google Scholar
- Sebastian Mukumbira, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Chris Muashekele, Rumbidzai Chitakunye, Peter Wandai, and Vera De Cauwer. 2021. Conservation tool design caught in the midst of transdisciplinary negotiations of data accuracy. In 3rd African Human-Computer Interaction Conference: Inclusiveness and Empowerment. 22--32.Google ScholarDigital Library
- Kasper Rodil, Donovan Maasz, and Heike Winschiers-Theophilus. 2020. Moving Virtual Reality out of its Comfort Zone and Into the African Kalahari Desert Field: Experiences From Technological Co-Exploration With an Indigenous San Community in Namibia. In 26th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology. 1--10.Google ScholarDigital Library
- Kasper Rodil, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Colin Stanley, Gereon Koch Kapuire, and Matthias Rehm. 2014. An approach to user interface design with two indigenous groups in Namibia. In Proceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Designing Futures: The Future of Design. 460--469.Google ScholarDigital Library
- Brit Stichel, Edwin Blake, Donovan Maasz, Colin Stanley, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, and Helena Afrikaner. 2019. Namibian Indigenous communities reflecting on their own digital representations. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Communities & Technologies-Transforming Communities. 51--59.Google ScholarDigital Library
- Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Tariq Zaman, and Colin Stanley. 2017. A classification of cultural engagements in community technology design: introducing a transcultural approach. AI & SOCIETY (6 2017). Google ScholarDigital Library
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- Bridging worlds: indigenous knowledge in the digital world
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