Usability guidelines for designing knowledge base in rural areas towards women empowerment

Abstract

The paper discusses issues related to Design, User experience Usability involved in designing the interface to be used in rural areas. This study analyses the problems based on tests done on the interface in the villages of Punjab, Pakistan. Rural development is based on economic, social and human development. Whereas, Software Requirement Engineering focuses on how requirements can be gathered to achieve better end product. We aim to discuss software requirement gathering process in rural areas and attempting to elicit requirements from Pakistani rural woman. This could help us in bridging the technological gaps exist between rural and remote areas. Our aim is to find a solution for this barrier by designing software for rural woman of Pakistan. Further break down of our study is health issues with rural woman by adopting software requirement gathering on various e-health issues. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.