01988nas a2200253   4500000000100000000000100001000000100002008004100003653002500044653002200069653001400091653002200105653001400127653002400141653001300165100002000178700001800198700001700216245010600233856011800339300001000457520124700467022002001714       2019                            d10aCommunity engagement10acultural heritage10aEducation10aMobile Technology10aPrototype10aStudents-led design10aTraining1 aDanilo Giglitto1 aShaimaa Lazem1 aAnne Preston00aA participatory approach for digital documentation of egyptian bedouins intangible cultural heritage.  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85086099863&partnerID=40&md5=c510b76ea631272e3bfee8b2a59c1ecb  a31-493 aThe Bedouins of Egypt hold a unique intangible cultural heritage (ICH), with distinct cultural values and social practices that are rapidly changing as a consequence of having settled after having been nomadic for centuries. We present our attempt to develop a bottom-up approach to document Bedouin ICH. Grounded in participatory design practices, the project purpose was two-fold: engaging Egyptian Engineering undergraduates with culturally-distant technology users and introducing digital self-documentation of ICH to the Bedouin community. We report the design of a didactic model that deployed the students as research partners to co-design four prototypes of ICH documentation mobile applications with the community. The prototypes reflected an advanced understanding for the values to the Bedouins brought by digital documentation practices. Drawing from our experience, three recommendations were elicited for similar ICH projects. Namely, focusing on the community benefits; promoting motivation ownership, and authenticity; and pursuing a shared identity between designers and community members. These guidelines hold a strong value as they have been tested against local challenges that could have been detrimental to the project.  a18269745 (ISSN)