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Salgado, Luciana Cardoso de Castro; Faria Leitao, Carla; de Souza, Clarisse Sieckenius - Journey Through Cultures - 9781447141136 - V9781447141136
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Journey Through Cultures

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Description for Journey Through Cultures Hardcover. Presents novel ways for helping HCI designers communicate why they want to promote users' contact with cultural diversity, presenting five cultural viewpoint metaphors supporting reasoning and decision-making in dimensions of intercultural experience. Series: Human-Computer Interaction Series. Num Pages: 130 pages, 9 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: CFX; JFC; UBJ; UYZG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 240 x 14. Weight in Grams: 356.

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 ... Read more

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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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
146
Condition
New
Series
Human-Computer Interaction Series
Number of Pages
130
Place of Publication
England, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447141136
SKU
V9781447141136
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