New interaction tools for preserving an old language

• Main Authors: Plimmer, Beryl, Liang, He, Tariq, Zaman, Kasun, Karunanayaka, Yeo, Alvin Wee, Jengan, Garen, Blagojevic, Rachel, Do, Ellen Yi-Luen
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: Association for Computing Machinery 2015
• Subjects: HM Sociology; HT Communities. Classes. Races; T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12004/1/No%2018%20%28abstrak%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12004/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702339
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

The Penan people of Malaysian Borneo were traditionally nomads of the rainforest. They would leave messages in the jungle for each other by shaping natural objects into language tokens and arranging these symbols in specific ways – much like words in a sentence. With settlement, the language is bein...