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HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A Cross Culture Study on Phone Carrying and Physical Personalization
The mobile phone has become one of the essential objects that people carry when they leave home. By conducting a series of street interviews in 11 cities on 4 continents, we attemp...
Yanqing Cui, Jan Chipchase, Fumiko Ichikawa
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A Tale of Two Teams: Success and Failure in Virtual Team Meetings
Interaction between two teams with the same team leader and with similar size and goals moved from weekly face-to-face meetings to virtual meetings because of the temporary displac...
Marilyn Tremaine, Allen E. Milewski, Richard Egan,...
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
International Remote Usability Evaluation: The Bliss of Not Being There
Abstract. This paper describes the planning and implementation of a crossborder usability test that was to be executed in five European countries. The usability evaluation was desi...
Mika P. Nieminen, Petri Mannonen, Johanna Viitanen
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Testing Object Management (TOM): A Prototype for Usability Knowledge Management in Global Software
The collection and sharing of results from usability laboratories around the world has not yet made good use of emerging models of Internetbased knowledge sharing technologies. Thi...
Ian Douglas
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Cultural Usability Tests - How Usability Tests Are Not the Same All over the World
The cultural diversity of users of technology challenges our methods for usability evaluation. In this paper we report on a multi-site, cross-cultural grounded theory field study o...
Torkil Clemmensen, Qingxin Shi, Jyoti Kumar, Huiya...
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Digital Archive Database for Cultural Product Design
The purpose of this paper is to build a digital archive database for Taiwanese people to learn Taiwanese culture through the internet and elearning environment. This study will be ...
Rungtai Lin, Ricer Cheng, Ming-Xian Sun
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
HCI and SE - The Cultures of the Professions
The author reviewed and participated in several exemplar industry projects from the Indian IT industry to study the integration of human-computer interaction (HCI) design into soft...
Anirudha Joshi
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A System for Adaptive Multimodal Interaction in Crisis Environments
In the recent years multimodal interfaces have acquired an important role in human computer interaction applications. Subsequently these interfaces become more and more human-orien...
Dragos Datcu, Zhenke Yang, Léon J. M. Rothk...
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Language Issues in Cross Cultural Usability Testing: A Pilot Study in China
Language effect (Chinese vs. English), and power distance between evaluator and user in usability test were investigated. 12 participants from China, Swede, and Denmark formed 7 ev...
Xianghong Sun, Qingxin Shi
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Evaluation and Usability of Back Translation for Intercultural Communication
When users communicate with each other via machine translation, it is important to improve the quality of the translations. The “Back Translation” technique can improve the tra...
Tomohiro Shigenobu