Cultural Issues in HCI: Challenges and Opportunities

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Author(s):	Salgado, Luciana ; Pereira, Roberto ; Gasparini, Isabela ; Kurosu, M Total Authors: 4
Document type:	Journal article
Source:	HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION: DESIGN AND EVALUATION, PT I; v. 9169, p. 11-pg., 2015-01-01.
Abstract
Culture strongly influences people's values, expectations, behavior, and even perceptions and cognitive reasoning. Although HCI researchers recognize culture as an important factor, the research about cultural issues and HCI needs to go further. This paper discusses why culture should not be viewed as a threat or something that is better to relegated to minor importance in Human-Computer Interaction, but that has a key role in the investigations and development of new theories, methods and techniques. In the light of the grand challenges prospected in GranDIHC-BR by the Brazilian HCI community, we explore some of the opportunities and challenges culture brought to HCI as a research area. (AU)

FAPESP's process:	13/02821-1 - Norms in socially aware design of computing systems: artifacts, methods and tools
Grantee:	Roberto Pereira
Support Opportunities:	Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral


FAPESP's process:	14/01382-7 - Norms and values in design: theories, artifacts and methods
Grantee:	Roberto Pereira
Support Opportunities:	Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor