The Art of Cross-Cultural Design for Usability

More and more HCI researchers and practitioners have realized the urgency of addressing culture as being more than just an interface tuning parameter. Recent publications, project initiatives and a growing number of globally dispersed collaborating workgroups explore cultural models for practical solutions. Yet many endeavors focus on singled out aspects thereby missing fundamental factors of cross-cultural design and evaluation such as contextual connotations, dynamics and integration. Thus a common research agenda should therefore be the de-construction of the entire process as a basis for a comprehensive integration of shared experiences, best practices and tested models to enhance cross-cultural design and evaluation.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2009
• Where: HCI
• Authors: Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
• Keywords: Cross-cultural Design, Dispersed Collaborating Workgroups, HCI 2009, Human Computer Interaction, Interface Tuning Parameter