Culture calling: where is CHI?

Authors:
Ashwini Asokan
Affiliations:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA
Venue:
CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2008

Citing 7
Cited 0

Design: Cultural probes

interactions
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution

Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
Configuring the Mobile User: Sociological and Industry Views

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
SIG on one size fits all?: cultural diversity in user interface design

CHI '99 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Defining cultural identities using grammars: an exploration of "cultural languages" to create meaningful experiences

DUX '05 Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Designing for User eXperience
Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life

Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life
How HCI interprets the probes

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Despite some incredible books and works on culture in the past decade by wonderful designers, anthropologists and thinkers like Kenji Ekuan, Genevieve Bell and Howard Rheingold, the CHI community is still sparse on conversations and publications surrounding the place and significance of world cultures on design and HCI. [4, 6, 12] Culture as a lifestyle, a set of beliefs and value systems that shape everyday life in countries around the world, is at the core of understanding what our community calls 'the user'. It is the context that explains all data and inspiration we use in our design and creative processes. This SIG provides members of HCI & Design communities with an opportunity to explore and discuss different ways in which we can integrate culture as an essential aspect of our thinking, research and design of products, services and systems.