A Journey Through Cultures - Metaphors for Guiding the Design of Cross-Cultural Interactive Systems (Paperback, 2013 ed.)

A Journey Through Cultures addresses one of the hottest topics in contemporary HCI: cultural diversity amongst users. For a number of years the HCI community has been investigating alternatives to enhance the design of cross-cultural systems. Most contributions to date have followed either a 'design for each' or a 'design for all' strategy. A Journey Through Cultures takes a very different approach. Proponents of CVM - the Cultural Viewpoint Metaphors perspective - the authors invite HCI practitioners to think of how to expose and communicate the idea of cultural diversity. A detailed case study is included which assesses the metaphors' potential in cross-cultural design and evaluation. The results show that cultural viewpoint metaphors have strong epistemic power, leveraged by a combination of theoretic foundations coming from Anthropology, Semiotics and the authors' own work in HCI and Semiotic Engineering. Luciana Salgado, Carla Leitao and Clarisse de Souza are members of SERG, the Semiotic Engineering Research Group at the Departamento de Informatica of Rio de Janeiro's Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Rio).

General

Imprint:	Springer London
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Human-Computer Interaction Series
Release date:	September 2014
First published:	2013
Authors:	Luciana Cardoso De Castro Salgado • Carla Faria Leitao • Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	130
Edition:	2013 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4471-6063-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Computational linguistics Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Human-computer interaction Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Impact of computing & IT on society Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4471-6063-0
Barcode:	9781447160632

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