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Concepts of ‘culture’ are often invoked in analysis of humancomputer interaction, notably in attempts to refine or adapt systems to differing cultural contexts, such as in the process of internationalization or in creating systems and processes that can adapt to user’s cultures. This paper takes ethnographic research in this area to the study of culture in HCI to address culture as a problematic unit of analysis. It does this via qualitative video-based analysis of user’s interactions with information kiosks at international conferences. The paper argues that culture must be understood as contingent and nationality may not be the most important indicator in multi-national colocated settings.
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Hope, T., Hamasaki, M., Ishida, K., Fujimura, N., Nakamura, Y., Nishimura, T. (2007). Locating Culture in HCI with Information Kiosks and Social Networks. In: Aykin, N. (eds) Usability and Internationalization. HCI and Culture. UI-HCII 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4559. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73287-7_13
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