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Globalization, Culture, and Usability

Globalization, Culture, and Usability

Kerstin Röse
Copyright: © 2006 |Pages: 4
ISBN13: 9781591405627|ISBN10: 1591405629|EISBN13: 9781591407980
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-562-7.ch039
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Röse, Kerstin. "Globalization, Culture, and Usability." Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction, edited by Claude Ghaoui , IGI Global, 2006, pp. 253-256. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-562-7.ch039

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Röse, K. (2006). Globalization, Culture, and Usability. In C. Ghaoui (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction (pp. 253-256). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-562-7.ch039

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Röse, Kerstin. "Globalization, Culture, and Usability." In Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction, edited by Claude Ghaoui , 253-256. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2006. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-562-7.ch039

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Abstract

Globalization is a trend in the new industrial era. Global economy has seen a huge amount of product and technology exchanges all over the world. With the increase of export and resulting from that, with the increase of world-wide technical product exchange, a product will now be used by several international user groups. As a result, there is an increasing number of user groups with different cultural features and different cultural-based user philosophies. All these user groups and philosophies have to be taken into account by a product developer of human machine systems for a global market. User requirements of product design have become much more valued than before because cultural background is an important influencing variable that represents abilities and qualities of a user (del Galdo & Nielsen, 1996). However, there is a gap in developers’ knowledge when handling product design according to the culture-dependent user requirements of a foreign market (Röse & Zühlke, 2001), so the “user-oriented” product design has not always been fulfilled on the international market.

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