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Designing Picturebook Apps : Valuing Culture & Community Meyers, Eric M. (Professor in information science); Nathan, Lisa P.; Tulloch, Bonnie

Abstract

This article examines picturebook apps as sites of value negotiation and design in support of community and culture, illustrated through the ongoing design and development of an O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree community-centred picturebook app, Pīsim Finds Her Miskanow (Pīsim Miskam Omiskanow). We introduce the C&T community to early research on electronic picturebooks, and illustrate how picturebook theory is expanded with the remediation of print texts into multimodal narrative experiences. We turn to the case of Pīsim to further enrich and diversify these conceptions, weaving elements of culture into earlier models of picturebook apps. We draw on design theory, specifically the concept of values as hypotheses, to offer storied insights on how the design process of the Pīsim picture book app is enriched through its commitment to the originating community. We conclude with implications for the community-grounded design of interactive cultural belongings, not limited to picturebooks, including museum exhibits, educational installations, and digitized cultural heritage pieces.

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Title
Designing Picturebook Apps : Valuing Culture & Community
Creator
Meyers, Eric M. (Professor in information science); Nathan, Lisa P.; Tulloch, Bonnie
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Date Issued
2019-06
Description
This article examines picturebook apps as sites of value negotiation and design in support of community and culture, illustrated through the ongoing design and development of an O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree community-centred picturebook app, Pīsim Finds Her Miskanow (Pīsim Miskam Omiskanow). We introduce the C&T community to early research on electronic picturebooks, and illustrate how picturebook theory is expanded with the remediation of print texts into multimodal narrative experiences. We turn to the case of Pīsim to further enrich and diversify these conceptions, weaving elements of culture into earlier models of picturebook apps. We draw on design theory, specifically the concept of values as hypotheses, to offer storied insights on how the design process of the Pīsim picture book app is enriched through its commitment to the originating community. We conclude with implications for the community-grounded design of interactive cultural belongings, not limited to picturebooks, including museum exhibits, educational installations, and digitized cultural heritage pieces.
Subject
Picturebooks; Culture; Design; Values; Indigenous; Cree
Genre
Conference Paper
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2021-05-21
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0398116
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/78399
Affiliation
Arts, Faculty of; iSchool (Library, Archival and Information Studies)
Citation
Eric M. Meyers, Lisa P. Nathan and Bonnie Tulloch. 2019. Designing Picturebook Apps: Valuing Culture and Community. In Proceedings of ACM Communities and Technologies conference (C&T’19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages
Publisher DOI
10.1145/3328320.3328377
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty; Graduate
Copyright Holder
Association for Computing Machinery
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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