Cross-Cultural Technology Design Creating Culture-Sensitive Technology for Local Users

Name: Cross-Cultural Technology Design Creating Culture-Sensitive Technology for Local Users
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ISBN: 9780199744763

ISBN-10: 0199744769

ISBN-13: 9780199744763

Edition: 2012

Authors: 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 problem. Incorporating key concepts and methods from activity theory, British cultural studies, and…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/15/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.33" long x 1.15" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English




Grounding



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



Experiences



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



Implications



Culturally Localized User Experience as Situated and Constructed



Future Directions


Appendix A


Appendix B


Appendix C


Notes


References