Cross-cultural technology design: creating culture-sensitive technology for local users
by Sun, Huatong
The demand and opportunity for cross-cultural technology design is rapidly rising due to globalization. However, all too often resulting technologies are technically usable, yet cannot be immediately put to meaningful use by users in their local, concrete contexts. Support for concrete user activities is frequently missing in design, as support for decontextualized actions is typically the focus of design. Sun examines this disconnect between action and meaning in cross-cultural technology desi…
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- Full title :Cross-cultural technology design : creating culture-sensitive technology for local users / Huatong Sun.
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The demand and opportunity for cross-cultural technology design is rapidly rising due to globalization. However, all too often resulting technologies are technically usable, yet cannot be immediately put to meaningful use by users in their local, concrete contexts. Support for concrete user activities is frequently missing in design, as support for decontextualized actions is typically the focus of design. Sun examines this disconnect between action and meaning in cross-cultural technology design and presents an innovative framework, Culturally Localized User Experience (CLUE), to tackle this.
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- Publication Date:©2012.
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxii, 320 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199908158, 019990815X, 9780199932993, 0199932999
- oclc:ocn777201021
- LC Classification:HM846
- Dewey Decimal:303.48/3
Table of Contents
Approaching culture in cross-cultural technology design -- User experience in global context -- Integrating action and meaning in cross-cultural design -- Clue as a framework for cross-cultural user experience research -- Sophie's story: new chocolate at work -- Lili's story: pure water in social network -- Brian's story: conversations carried through my fingers -- Mei's story: "idioms solitaire" between sports fans -- Emma's story: more than a nice gesture in a technology-mediated life -- Culturally localized user experience as situated and constructed -- Future directions.
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