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Ideating and Designing Mobile Apps for Immigrants from Shared Experience

Authors:
Silvia Figueira

Keywords: computing for good; mobile apps for social impact; mobile apps for immigrants; co-ideation; co-design; shared experience, ideation and design

Abstract:
Mobile apps have become part of our daily lives. We use them for all kinds of tasks and rely on them for important information and services. However, there is a lack of apps to help people from underserved communities with tasks that are important for their specific needs, and the main reason for that is that such apps need to be needed/requested by the target population and then co-ideated and co-designed with them. This paper describes a program through which a group of computer science students had the opportunity to develop mobile apps for a specific population. The students were all immigrants or children of immigrants, and their goal was to ideate, design, and develop an app that would have helped their parents or themselves when they moved to the USA. Seven apps were developed, and the variety and uniqueness of the apps show the importance of the shared experience in the ideation and design of the apps.

Pages: 5 to 10

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2024

Publication date: June 30, 2024

Published in: conference

ISBN: 978-1-68558-181-7

Location: Porto, Portugal

Dates: from June 30, 2024 to July 4, 2024