Cross-Cultural Technology Design: Creating Culture-Sensitive Technology for Local Users

Cross-Cultural Technology Design: Creating Culture-Sensitive Technology for Local Users

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-352

  Sun, Huatong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity theory; Affordance; Cross cultural design; Cultural studies; Culturally localized user experience; Culturally sensitive design; Dialogicality; Genre theory; Localization; Mobile messaging; Participatory culture; Technology design; User experience; User localization

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960112492     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199744763.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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