Abdelnour-Nocera, Jose ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7935-7368 and Camara, Souleymane (2010) Reflecting on the usability of research on culture in designing interaction. In: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication. CATAC, pp. 150-162.

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Abstract

The concept of culture has been attractive to producers of interactive systems who are willing to design useful and relevant solutions to users increasingly located in culturally diverse contexts. Despite a substantial body of research on culture and technology, interaction designers have not always been able to apply these research outputs to effectively define requirements for culturally diverse users. This paper frames this issue as one of understanding of the different paradigms underpinning the cultural models being applied to interface development and research. Drawing on different social science theories, the authors discuss top-down and bottom-up perspectives in the study of users‟ cultural differences and discuss the extent to which each provides usable design knowledge. The case is made for combining bottom-up and top-down perspectives into a sociotechnical approach that can produce knowledge useful and usable by interaction designers. This is illustrated with a case study about the design of interactive systems for farmers in rural Kenya

Item Type:	Book Section
Subjects:	Computing
Depositing User:	Vani Aul
Date Deposited:	21 Feb 2014 12:27
Last Modified:	04 Nov 2024 12:46
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/689

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