Cross-Cultural Technology Design

by Huatong Sun

The demand and opportunity for cross-cultural technology design is rapidly rising due to globalization. However, all too often resulting technologies are technically usable, yet cannot be immediately put to meaningful use by users in their local, concrete contexts. Support for concrete user activities is frequently missing in design, as support for decontextualized actions is typically the focus of design. Sun examines this disconnect between action...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199744769
• ISBN13: 9780199744763
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.