Bringing User-Centered Design to the Field of Language Archives

dc.contributor.author Wasson, Christina
dc.contributor.author Holton, Gary
dc.contributor.author Roth, Heather S.
dc.date.accessioned 2017-04-03T22:15:13Z
dc.date.available 2017-04-03T22:15:13Z
dc.date.issued 2016-12
dc.description.abstract This article describes findings from a workshop that initiated a dialogue between the fields of user-centered design (UCD) and language archives. One of the challenges facing language archives is the fact that they typically have multiple user groups with significantly different information needs, as well as varying cultural practices of data sharing, access and use. UCD, informed by design anthropology, can help developers of language archives identify the main user groups of a particular archive; work with those user groups to map their needs and cultural practices; and translate those insights into archive design. The article describes findings from the workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives in February 2016. It reviews relevant aspects of language archiving and user-centered design to construct the rationale for the workshop, relates key insights produced during the workshop, and outlines next steps in the larger research trajectory initiated by this workshop. One major insight from the workshop was the discovery that at present, most language archives are not meeting the needs of most users. Representatives from all user groups expressed frustration at the current design of most language archives. This discovery points to the value of introducing a user-centered approach, so that the design of language archives can be better informed by the needs of users. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship National Foreign Language Resource Center en_US
dc.format.extent 41 pages en_US
dc.identifier.citation Wasson, Christina, Gary Holton & Heather S. Roth. 2016. Bringing User-Centered Design to the Field of Language Archives. Language Documentation & Conservation 10. 641-681. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1934-5275
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24721
dc.language.iso en-US en_US
dc.publisher University of Hawaii Press en_US
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International en_US
dc.subject language archive en_US
dc.subject user-centered design en_US
dc.subject language documentation en_US
dc.title Bringing User-Centered Design to the Field of Language Archives en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dc.type.dcmi Text en_US
prism.endingpage 681 en_US
prism.startingpage 641 en_US
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