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A Relational Approach to Designing Social Technologies that Foster Use of the Kuku Yalanji Language

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Taylor, Jennyfer Lawrence, Council, Wujal Wujal Aboriginal Shire, Soro, Alessandro, Roe, Paul, Brereton, Margot·2019·Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction
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Australia has a rich array of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, but they face decline along with many valued aspects of culture unless they are passed down to, and used by, younger generations. Prior work on designing technologies for language learning has often taken particular language skills, learning theories, and technologies as their starting point. Our empirical work with a remote Aboriginal community illustrates four ways in which this community's language practices intersect with family relations and are deeply enmeshed with family histories and stories, Indigenous Knowledges, and activities on and about country. Thus, we argue for a relational approach that instead takes family communication and social activities as the basis for designing technologies that foster everyday language use. We outline the guiding principles of this design orientation, and illustrate how they have been taken up in the co-design of a talking soft toy called the 'Crocodile Language Friend.' Finally, we identify opportunities and open issues in taking a relational approach to designing technologies for language communities with similar needs and aspirations.

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  • Technology use that is responsive to the local Indigenous community can foster more ethical relationships and relational language technologies going forward.

    “Technology use that is responsive to the local Indigenous community can foster more ethical relationships and “relational language technologies” (Taylor et al., 2019, p. 3511) going forward.”

    From Decolonizing the digital landscape: the role of technology in Indigenous language revitalization (2021) · cites this paper as Taylor et al., 2019

    Section 6 proposes technologies shaped by a language community’s needs and calls those developed through the approach “Relational Language Technologies.” It says the approach can enrich family relationships through dialogue and understanding, but does not explicitly claim that technology use fosters more ethical relationships. The paper also cautions that the approach may not apply to every language community; page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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Taylor, J. L., Council, W. W. A. S., Soro, A., Roe, P., & Brereton, M.
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  • Queensland University of Technology (AU)
  • Wujal Wujal, Queensland, Australia
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Venue
Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction
Publisher
ACM
Published
2019-12-02
Pages
161-172
DOI
10.1145/3369457.3369471
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W3000395454
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Citations by year
2025: 3 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 5
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70.82
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conference paper
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en
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  • Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI) (publishedVersion)
  • QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Queensland University of Technology
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Australian Indigenous Culture and History
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › ICT in Developing Communities
Keywords
language revitalization, relational design, Aboriginal languages, family communication, everyday language use, co-design, indigenous knowledge, language loss, remote Aboriginal communities, language learning

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