Overview
- Includes a simple, yet powerful set of metaphors for the conceptualization of cross-cultural design
- Tackles cultural diversity challenges faced not only by HCI practitioners, but also most of the developers of current web applications
- The first book to include a semiotic perspective in HCI studies about culture
Part of the book series: Human–Computer Interaction Series (HCIS)
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About this book
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 Leitão and Clarisse de Souza are members of SERG, the Semiotic Engineering Research Group at the Departamento de Informática of Rio de Janeiro's Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Rio).
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Journey Through Cultures
Book Subtitle: Metaphors for Guiding the Design of Cross-Cultural Interactive Systems
Authors: Luciana Cardoso de Castro Salgado, Carla Faria Leitão, Clarisse Sieckenius Souza
Series Title: Human–Computer Interaction Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4114-3
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-4113-6Published: 15 August 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-6063-2Published: 20 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-4114-3Published: 14 August 2012
Series ISSN: 1571-5035
Series E-ISSN: 2524-4477
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 130
Topics: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Computers and Society, Computational Linguistics, Cultural Studies