Advance Program - Tutorial

13. Cross-Cultural User-Interface Design: Accommodating Cultural Preferences, Acceptance, and Constraints

Sunday, 08:30 - 17:00

Instructors
Aaron Marcus, Aaron Marcus and Associates, USA
Emilie West Gould, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Donald L. Day, Towson University, USA
Pia Honold, Siemens AG, Germany

Benefits

• You will learn terminology, principles, and guidelines
• Gain practical experience through group exercises
• Improve ability to make user-interfaces more acceptable/preferable
• Discover research issues

Origins
CHI SIGs and panels from 1990-1999.

Features

• Introduction to cultural models for analysis of user interfaces
• Group design/evaluation exercises

Audience
Basic knowledge of user-interface design required. Valuable for user-interface and information-visualization designers, software developers, human factors specialists, cognitive scientists, technical documentation specialists, teachers, and researchers.

Presentation
Illustrated lectures and group pen-paper exercises with role-playing, and group discussion/evaluation.

Instructors
Aaron Marcus has been a Tutorial presenter at CHI and SIGGRAPH. He is the author/ co-author of four books, including Graphic Design for Electronic Documents and User Interfaces. He has authored/co-authored 100 articles and has led international communication projects. Emilie W. Gould is an human factors engineer and communication researcher, and is a faculty member of Rensselear Polytechnic Institute's Sino-US MBA program. Donald Day is a guest editor of Interacting with Computers and co-editor of Computers, Communication & Mental Models. Pia Honold is currently researching cultural diversity for her Ph.D. thesis and has presented the findings at IWIPS 99, HCII 99.