Applying and testing an approach to design for culturally diverse user groups
✍ Scribed by P Bourges-Waldegg; S.A.R Scrivener
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 436 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0953-5438
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✦ Synopsis
This paper intends to illustrate how user interface designers can apply the Meaning in Mediated Action (MIMA) approach (P. Bourges-Waldegg, A.R. Scrivener, Meaning; the central issue is crosscultural HCI design, Interacting with Computers, 9 (3) (1998) 287±310, special issue on ªShared Values and Shared Interfacesº) to design for culturally diverse user groups. After outlining its theoretical foundation, we describe how the MIMA stagesÐobservation, evaluation, analysis and designÐwere carried out to redesign a WWW system. Finally, we assess the ef®cacy of this approach by comparing the results of the evaluation of the original and the redesigned interfaces.