Towards a theory of cultural usability: A comparison of ada and cm-u theory

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5619 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 416-425

  Clemmensen, Torkil ^a  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cultural models; Culture; HCI; Usability

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL MODELS; CULTURAL USABILITY; CULTURE; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; HCI; HUMAN ACTIONS; SCIENTIFIC STUDIES; SITUATED COGNITION; SOCIAL SCIENTISTS; USABILITY;

ADA (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); ELECTRIC CURRENTS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 70350232045     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02806-9_48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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