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− | The design described here was designed and evaluated collectively with teachers and students of two Nasa schools, located in mountains of the Cauca department in Colombia. | + | Our goal is to adapt Sugar according to cultural characteristics of the [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasa Nasa] context. The design described here was designed and evaluated collectively with teachers and students of two Nasa schools, located in mountains of the Cauca department in Colombia. |
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− | Our idea is to adapt Sugar according to cultural characteristics of the Nasa context.
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| First, we would take advantage of the three Sugar's "spaces", home, group and neighborhood, to provide in the interface analogies to those three spaces: | | First, we would take advantage of the three Sugar's "spaces", home, group and neighborhood, to provide in the interface analogies to those three spaces: |
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− | * The kid representation, taken from the chumbes. | + | * The kid representation. The buddy icon used has been based on the human representations found in the chumbes (ribbon tejido) were Nasa documents elements of their daily-life. |
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| + | * Rhombus. The rhombus is an important Nasa symbol, which means a World view. Rhombus can be found in handicrafts, bags, dances, paintings and a wide range of cultural manifestations. |
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− | * Rhombus. One world view | + | * Spiral. The rhombus relates to another ubiquitous symbol, the spiral, which stands for time and life development. It link been used to describe the diffent levels of social interaction: the hearth, the house garden, the resguardo, the municipality, the department, and so on. |
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− | * Spiral. Social interaction levels | + | * Garabatos and bags. Used to store different kinds of objects, tools, and food, hanged up, out of the reach of animals. |
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