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Context and User-Centered Approaches: Icons in Cross-Cultural Context

Anneli HeimbürgerYasushi Kiyoki

subject

Contextual designComputer scienceHuman–computer interactionEmbodied cognitionKey (cryptography)Natural (music)Context (language use)IconcomputerStructuringcomputer.programming_languageTask (project management)

description

Culture is embodied in how people interact with other individuals and with their environment. It is a way of life formed under specific historical, natural and social conditions. Cross-cultural communication environment, user/actor and task/situation is the key triplet in our context research. In this chapter, context is discussed as a multidimensional concept and icons in cross-cultural environments are introduced. The authors present Kiyoki's semantic associative search method, and introduce an example of applying an icon-based platform for cross-cultural communication with Kiyoki’s method for searching and creating context-dependent cross-cultural information. This cross-cultural communication platform realizes mutual understanding between two cultures by contextual data structuring and computing.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2014-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1887-4_20