Inuvialuit Voices is a long-term, collaborative project with research team members from communities in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR) and the University of Alberta. The project team is working to add digital storytelling features to the Inuvialuit Digital Library. The project aims to collect information on storytelling and the types of stories that community members might like to record and preserve. Based on initial consultations with community members, a prototype audio-recording interface will be designed. This prototype will be tested and evaluated by community members so that it can be refined and implemented. Throughout the project, community input will be sought through interviews, focus groups, open houses, and workshops. Overall, the goal of this research is to find a way to support and incorporate storytelling into the Inuvialuit Digital Library.

The overarching objective of this study is to investigate, develop, and evaluate a real-time, audio-recording digital storytelling and commenting user interface for the Inuvialuit Digital Library in order to facilitate live capturing community input and stories while interacting with the Digital Library. Specific objectives of this project include:

1. establishing a novel community-driven participatory design methodology for developing an audio-recording digital storytelling user interface,
2. designing, prototyping, and developing said interface with Inuvialuktun features such as storytelling and commenting functionalities that can be captured in real time,
3. exploring the enhancement of the currently-available digital materials of cultural heritage within the Library through real-time stories and comments by Inuvialuit community members, and
4. conducting a community-driven usability evaluation of the realtime, digital storytelling user interface and its audio-recording functionalities.