Cross-cultural technology design : creating culture-sensitive technology for local users /

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 activiti...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sun, Huatong, 1973-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Series:Oxford series in human-technology interaction.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxii, 320 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-303) and index.
ISBN:9780199908158
019990815X
9780199932993
0199932999