Advance Program - Workshop

2a. Challenges in the Multicultural HCI Development Environment (Day 1 of 2)

Sunday, 08:30 - 17:00

Organizers
Michael G. McKenna, Henry Naftulin, Sybase, Inc. USA

The effort to ease creation of multicultural systems is being undertaken by an increasingly broad community of application designers and developers. This task is not trivial given lack of tools, knowledge, and standards in the area of cross-cultural human computer interaction. This workshop explores the challenges in the multicultural HCI development environment and ways to overcome them.

We will explore the cultural and linguistic issues of:

• Textual display design
• Visual design
• Intelligent agents
• Social interfaces
• Learning modalities
• Information retrieval
• Language handling
• Distributed systems
• Integration of Unicode features

The workshop will focus on how frameworks and methodologies can aid in providing modular multicultural interaction design and seamless cultural and linguistic feature integration.

Participants will be expected to come to the workshop with examples of frameworks and methodologies, and we will then work together to understand and identify the common experiences and major issues in the field.

The output of the workshop will be recommendations for a framework for modular multicultural interaction design and recommended methodologies for effective multicultural feature integration, to be published in a SIGCHI Bulletin after the Conference.

Contact
Michael G. McKenna
Sybase, Inc
1650-65th Street
Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Tel: +1 510 922 3579
Fax: +1 510 922 4228
Email: mgm@acm.org