A Journey Through Cultures Metaphors for Guiding the Design of Cross-Cultural Interactive Systems /

• Main Authors: Salgado, Luciana Cardoso de Castro (Author), Leitão, Carla Faria (Author), Souza, Clarisse Sieckenius de (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Human–Computer Interaction Series,
• Subjects: Computer science.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Computers and civilization.; Computational linguistics.; Cultural studies.; Computer Science.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Computers and Society.; Computational Linguistics.; Cultural Studies.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Semiotic Engineering and Culture
• Cultural Viewpoint Metaphors
• A Case Study: Re-designing the AVIS Website
• Final Discussion
• Index.