A socio-technical approach to making explicit interculturality in collaborative multi-disciplinary settings

  • Authors:
  • Souleymane Boundaouda Camara;José Abdelnour-Nocéra

  • Affiliations:
  • Thames Valley University, London, United Kingdom;Thames Valley University, London, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Intercultural collaboration
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper proposes a socio-technical approach to making explicit cultural issues in collaborative and multidisciplinary teams in information system design. Requirements and design processes of international, multicultural and multidisciplinary partners are put through a series of socio-technical experiments and evaluated to develop and refine a conceptual tool: socio-technical evaluation matrices (STEM). STEM has provided a platform to effectively explore, explicate and reflect on cultural and contextual implications in design processes among stakeholders (including end users).