Title: Interactions and Visualizations for People with low literacy
1Interactions and Visualizations for People with
low literacy and low Information Seeking Skills
For
Barnet CAB
By
Prof. William Wong (IDC, Middlesex
University) Poorva Lavate (IIT, Bombay,
India) Aditi Singh (DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India)
at
2A Little About Myself
- Born and brought up in an army background, I
have been fond of hard work and extracurricular
activities alike. I have had the opportunity to
represent my school in swimming and my batch in
college in badminton. I have also been fond of
other sports like sailing, white water rafting,
horse riding and diving to name a few. - Currently doing my Bachelors in Technology
(B.Tech) in India at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute
of Information and Communication Technology
(DA-IICT), Gandhinagar , Gujarat - It is the only institute which offers this kind
of a course which is a combination of Computer
Science, Electrical and Electronics and IT
(Information Technology) courses. - One of the earlier projects that I did in my
second semester was to build a teaching aid for
visually challenged students of biology. This
greatly increased my interest in design and human
machine interaction. - As part of the course curriculum of our college
- Rural Internship - in a village in India -
studying the implementation of ICT to rural India - Industrial Internship - Bangalore - with the
Reliance Group - studying the working and
operation of the Media Convergence Node there. - Research Internship - IDC, Middlesex University -
thats what we are going to talk about
3Barnet CAB
- Charitable Organization that helps citizens to
live a better life - Run by volunteers and provides help free of
cost - To enhance this noble cause - the Barnet
decided to put up kiosks to be able to provide
information to more and more people.
- The Fit for purpose study that was done
earlier under the able - guidance of Prof. William showed us that the
kiosk would be more - efficient if it implemented the following
- Answers rather than link to link approach
- Problem oriented information structure as
additional navigation mechanism
- So, during the last two months we have been
involved in analyzing how this can be made more
efficient and useful for the people we are trying
to help.
4The Card Sort Experiment
- Purpose To be able to determine the manner in
which the clients think about the titles on the
cards and visualize them. This gives us an idea
of how they would seek information and hence how
best it should be provided to them. - Why the card sort experiment ?
- Clients have complex problems
- Hence, needs to be dealt with in unison not
isolation - Hence, the need to identify the clusters of
problems of the clients
- Methods that we used to carry out the experiment
- Cards have headings on them taken from various
sites that are used by the kiosk and the client
is asked to sort out the cards. - First method - clients sort out the cards in any
way that the titles make sense to them - Second - The sort out the cards in relation to
the problem that they have - Third - We sort the cards as per their
classification on the websites and ask the
clients to look for the information they need
The set of three methods were carried out by
Poorva, internee from IIT and Aditi (DA-IICT).
5Inference of the results of the experiments
- Analysis of results of first method revealed that
- About 49 of the total classifications that were
made by the people were not consistent with the
way that they are represented in the websites. - This maybe lead to a situation in which the
client is not able to find the information where
he visualizes it to be. So, he may not be able to
get the information he is looking for. - In the mean time we received the database of
client information of the past year - So, our data set became larger
- 1237 clients
- data spanning one year (from 1/4/2005 to
31/3/2006)
Using that data set we went on to identify the
clusters at two levels
6A few of the clusters we identified
Relationships
Financial
Benefits
Debt
Benefits
Debt
Housing
Legal
Housing
Legal
Immigration
Employment
Employment
Benefits
Debt
Benefits
Debt
Financial
Tax
Legal
7More clusters - at the next level
Relationship breakdown
Housing Benefit
Domestic Violence
Working Child Tax Credits
Personal rights in Relationships
Owner Occupier Property
Threatened Homelessness
Compensation Redress
Mortgage Secured Loans
County High Court Proceedings
8Characteristics of Interface
- Based on the clusters identified
- User should not lose context of where he is
- To show other information that might be related
to his problem - To allow user to look for solution to a complex
problem as opposed to a simple one - Easy to interpret the relationships of the
clusters - To implicitly use color and spatial
relationships to depict connection between
cluster members - Ultimately, provide information to their
problem in a more efficient manner
9Analysis on the basis of ethnicity
White British Benefits - 40
Debt - 20 Employment - 18
Housing - 13 Black / Black British
Benefits - 39 Housing - 23
Debt - 13 Legal - 11 Asian
/ Asian British Benefits - 38
Debt - 14 Housing - 20 White
Other Benefits - 33 Employment
- 14 Legal - 11 Housing
- 26
Mixed Benefits - 30 Debt
- 11 Employment - 9 Housing
- 26 Chinese Benefits - 33
Housing - 17 Debt - 0
Legal - 17 White Irish Benefits
- 45 Debt - 9 Housing -
18 Other Benefits - 23
Employment - 10 Legal - 12
Housing - 23
10Some of the designs ...
11Design 1 ...
12Relationships
Housing
Debt
Health
Benefits
Utilities
Employment
Legal
Immigration
Consumer goods
13Relationships
Benefits
Employment
Housing
Debt
Health
LEGAL
Utilities
Personal - related court proceedings
County High Court Proceedings
Magistrate Court Proceedings
Compensation Redress
Solicitors / barristers
Immigration
Victims of Crime
Incapacity
Legal Aid
Police
Consumer goods
Other
14Threatened homlessness
Relationships
Housing benefit
Housing property
Owner occupier property
Housing
Debt
County High Court Proceedings
Health
Benefits
Utilities
Employment
Text box
Immigration
Consumer goods
15Design 2 ...
16Relationships
Relationship breakdown
Children
Debt
Housing
Domestic Violence
Personal rights within relationships
Fuel debts
Threatened homelessness
Bankruptcy
Housing assoc. property
Council Tax
Owner occupier property
Unsecured personal loan debts
Local Authority housing
Utilities
Other Housing issues
Health
Fuel (gas, electricity, oil etc)
General Medical Practice
Water sewage
Dentists
Telephones
Community Care
Mobile phones
NHS costs / charges
Television
Ambulance Services
Other comm. utility issues
Benefits
Income Support
Housing Benefit
Child Benefits
Council Tax Benefits
Incapacity Benefits
Working Child Tax Credits
Employment
Legal
County High Court Proceedings
Pay Entitlements
Solicitors / barristers
Dispute Resolutions
Legal Aid
Dismissal
Police
Terms Conditions of Employment
Incapacity
Redundancy
Immigration
Consumer goods
Vehicle Repairs / servicing
Asylum seekers
Clothing footwear
Family, dependents partners
Electrical electronic appliances repairs
Visitors
Building repairs improvements
Workers
Students
Nationality / citizenship
17Relationships
Relationship breakdown
Children
Debt
Housing
Domestic Violence
Personal rights within relationships
Fuel debts
Threatened homelessness
Bankruptcy
Housing assoc. property
Council Tax
Owner occupier property
Unsecured personal loan debts
Local Authority housing
Utilities
Other Housing issues
Health
Fuel (gas, electricity, oil etc)
General Medical Practice
Water sewage
Dentists
Telephones
Community Care
Mobile phones
NHS costs / charges
Television
Ambulance Services
Other comm. utility issues
Benefits
Income Support
Housing Benefit
Child Benefits
Council Tax Benefits
Incapacity Benefits
Working Child Tax Credits
Employment
Legal
Pay Entitlements
County High Court Proceedings
Solicitors / barristers
Dispute Resolutions
Legal Aid
Dismissal
Text box
Police
Terms Conditions of Employment
County High Court Proceedings
Incapacity
Redundancy
Immigration
Consumer goods
Vehicle Repairs / servicing
Asylum seekers
Clothing footwear
Family, dependents partners
Electrical electronic appliances repairs
Visitors
Building repairs improvements
Workers
Students
Nationality / citizenship
18Relationships
Relationship breakdown
Children
Debt
Housing
Domestic Violence
Personal rights within relationships
Fuel debts
Threatened homelessness
Bankruptcy
Housing assoc. property
Council Tax
Owner occupier property
Unsecured personal loan debts
Local Authority housing
Utilities
Other Housing issues
Health
Fuel (gas, electricity, oil etc)
General Medical Practice
Water sewage
Dentists
Telephones
Community Care
Mobile phones
NHS costs / charges
Television
Ambulance Services
Other comm. utility issues
Benefits
Income Support
Housing Benefit
Child Benefits
Council Tax Benefits
Incapacity Benefits
Working Child Tax Credits
Employment
Legal
Pay Entitlements
County High Court Proceedings
Dispute Resolutions
Solicitors / barristers
Dismissal
Legal Aid
Text box
Terms Conditions of Employment
Police
Relationship breakdown
Redundancy
Incapacity
Immigration
Consumer goods
Vehicle Repairs / servicing
Asylum seekers
Clothing footwear
Family, dependents partners
Electrical electronic appliances repairs
Visitors
Building repairs improvements
Workers
Students
Nationality / citizenship
19Relationships
Relationship breakdown
Children
Debt
Housing
Domestic Violence
Personal rights within relationships
Fuel debts
Threatened homelessness
Bankruptcy
Housing assoc. property
Council Tax
Owner occupier property
Unsecured personal loan debts
Local Authority housing
Utilities
Other Housing issues
Health
Fuel (gas, electricity, oil etc)
General Medical Practice
Water sewage
Dentists
Telephones
Community Care
Mobile phones
NHS costs / charges
Television
Ambulance Services
Other comm. utility issues
Benefits
Income Support
Housing Benefit
Child Benefits
Council Tax Benefits
Incapacity Benefits
Working Child Tax Credits
Employment
Legal
Pay Entitlements
County High Court Proceedings
Dispute Resolutions
Solicitors / barristers
Dismissal
Legal Aid
Terms Conditions of Employment
Police
Redundancy
Incapacity
Immigration
Consumer goods
Vehicle Repairs / servicing
Asylum seekers
Clothing footwear
Family, dependents partners
Electrical electronic appliances repairs
Visitors
Building repairs improvements
Workers
Students
Nationality / citizenship
20Design 3 ...
21Education
Relationships
Consumer Goods
Finances
Debt
Tax
Employment
Benefits
Housing
Immigration
Utilities
Legal
Health
Travel, Transport
Signposting
Others
22Benefits
Housing
Employment
Immigration
Debt
Asylum Seekers
Housing Benefit
Actual Homelessness
Discrimination Issues
Hire Purchase arrears
Income Support
Threatened Homelessness
Self Employment / Business
Mortgage Secured Loans
Family dependents
Pension Credit
LA Homelessness Service
Recruitment
Fuel Debts
Visitors
Social Fund Loans
Local Authority Housing
Terms of Employment
Telephone Debts
Workers
Carers Allowance
Housing Association Property
Health Safety
Rent arrears
Students
Child Benefit
Private Sector Rented Property
Pay Entitlements
Council Tax
Nationality / Citizenship
Council Tax Benefits
Owner occupied Property
Parental Carers Rights
Community Charge Arrears
Other Issues
Working Child Tax Credits
Dispute Resolution
Bankrupcy
Environment neighbor issues
Jobseekers Allowance
Others
Resignation
Social Fund Debts
National Insurance
Dismissal
Overpayments
State Recruitment Pension
Redundancy
Water Supply Sewage debts
Relationships
Incapacity Benefit
Others
Catalogue mail order debts
DLA
Others
Attendance Allowance
Health
Education
Consumer Goods
Other Benefits Issues
Housing Benefits
Finances
Tax
Utilities
Legal
Housing and council tax benefits are means tested
benefits, which help people on low incomes to pay
their rent and council tax. Housing benefit is
called rent rebate if you pay your rent to the
council or rent allowance if you pay your rent to
a housing association or a private landlord. Who
can claim? You have to be liable to pay rent and
/ or council tax for your home to get housing and
/ or council tax benefit. For further information
please contact us on 020 8359 2111.You can claim
whether you are working or not, receiving other
benefits, renting privately, or living in a
hostel or other similar accommodation.Normally
claims for housing benefit should be made by the
person responsible for paying the rent to the
landlord. For council tax benefit the person who
is liable to pay the council tax for the property
should make the claim.In most cases if you reside
with your landlord/landlady and he/she is a
close relative, you may not be entitled to
housing and council tax benefits.Unless you are
receiving the Guarantee Credit of Pension Credit,
if you have capital of 16,000 or more, you
cannot receive housing benefit or main council
tax benefit. Savings over 3,000 (or 6,000 if
you or your partner are aged over 60) affect how
much housing and council tax benefit you can get.
Travel, Transport
Signposting
Others
23Benefits
Housing
Debt
Legal
Relationships
Housing Benefit
Hire Purchase arrears
Actual Homelessness
Discrimination Issues
Discrimination Issues
Income Support
Mortgage Secured Loans
Threatened Homelessness
Magistrate Court Proceedings
Personal Rights
Pension Credit
Fuel Debts
LA Homelessness Service
County High Court Proceedings
Domestic Violence
Social Fund Loans
Telephone Debts
Local Authority Housing
Legal Aid
Relationship Breakdown
Rent arrears
Housing Association Property
Solicitors / Barristers
Children
Carers Allowance
Child Benefit
Council Tax
Private Sector Rented Property
Police
Child Support
Council Tax Benefits
Community Charge Arrears
Owner occupied Property
Victims of crime
Death Bereavement
Working Child Tax Credits
Bankrupcy
Compensation redress
Other Issues
Environment neighbor issues
Jobseekers Allowance
Social Fund Debts
Others
Incapacity
National Insurance
Overpayments
Personal
State Recruitment Pension
Water Supply Sewage debts
Others
Incapacity Benefit
Catalogue mail order debts
DLA
Others
Attendance Allowance
Other Benefits Issues
Finances
Tax
Education
Consumer Goods
Immigration
Utilities
Legal
Health
Travel, Transport
Signposting
Others
24Benefits
Housing
Debt
Legal
Relationships
Housing Benefit
Hire Purchase arrears
Actual Homelessness
Discrimination Issues
Discrimination Issues
Income Support
Mortgage Secured Loans
Threatened Homelessness
Magistrate Court Proceedings
Personal Rights
Pension Credit
Fuel Debts
LA Homelessness Service
County High Court Proceedings
Domestic Violence
Social Fund Loans
Telephone Debts
Local Authority Housing
Legal Aid
Relationship Breakdown
Rent arrears
Housing Association Property
Solicitors / Barristers
Children
Carers Allowance
Child Benefit
Council Tax
Private Sector Rented Property
Police
Child Support
Council Tax Benefits
Community Charge Arrears
Owner occupied Property
Victims of crime
Death Bereavement
Working Child Tax Credits
Bankrupcy
Compensation redress
Other Issues
Environment neighbor issues
Jobseekers Allowance
Social Fund Debts
Others
Incapacity
National Insurance
Overpayments
Personal
State Recruitment Pension
Water Supply Sewage debts
Others
Incapacity Benefit
Catalogue mail order debts
DLA
Others
Attendance Allowance
Other Benefits Issues
Finances
Tax
Education
Consumer Goods
Magistrate Court Proceedings
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Immigration
Utilities
Legal
Health
Travel, Transport
Signposting
Others
25Benefits
Housing
Employment
Immigration
Debt
Asylum Seekers
Housing Benefit
Actual Homelessness
Discrimination Issues
Hire Purchase arrears
Income Support
Threatened Homelessness
Self Employment / Business
Mortgage Secured Loans
Family dependents
Pension Credit
LA Homelessness Service
Recruitment
Fuel Debts
Visitors
Social Fund Loans
Local Authority Housing
Terms of Employment
Telephone Debts
Workers
Housing Association Property
Health Safety
Rent arrears
Students
Carers Allowance
Child Benefit
Private Sector Rented Property
Pay Entitlements
Council Tax
Nationality / Citizenship
Council Tax Benefits
Owner occupied Property
Parental Carers Rights
Community Charge Arrears
Other Issues
Working Child Tax Credits
Dispute Resolution
Bankrupcy
Environment neighbor issues
Jobseekers Allowance
Others
Resignation
Social Fund Debts
National Insurance
Dismissal
Overpayments
State Recruitment Pension
Redundancy
Water Supply Sewage debts
Relationships
Incapacity Benefit
Others
Catalogue mail order debts
DLA
Others
Attendance Allowance
Health
Education
Consumer Goods
Other Benefits Issues
Finances
Tax
Utilities
Legal
Travel, Transport
Signposting
Others
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