Cultural dimensions for user experience: Cross-country and cross-product analysis of users' cultural characteristics

Proceedings of the 22nd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Culture, Creativity, Interaction, BCS HCI 2008

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 3-12

  Lee, Inseong ^a   Choi, Gi Woong ^a   Kim, Jinwoo ^a   Kim, Solyung ^a   Lee, Kiho ^a   Kim, Daniel ^a   Han, Myunghee ^b   Park, Seung Yong ^b   An, Yongil ^b  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cultural dimensions; Culture; User experience

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR PHONE; CONTEXTUAL INQUIRY; CROSS PRODUCT; CULTURAL DIMENSIONS; MP-3 PLAYERS; ONLINE SURVEYS; USER EXPERIENCE;

CELL CULTURE;

EID: 84859918225     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/hci2008.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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