Ashwini Asokan
ABSTRACT
Despite some incredible books and works on culture in the past decade by wonderful designers, anthropologists and thinkers like Kenji Ekuan, Genevieve Bell and Howard Rheingold, the CHI community is still sparse on conversations and publications surrounding the place and significance of world cultures on design and HCI. [4, 6, 12] Culture as a lifestyle, a set of beliefs and value systems that shape everyday life in countries around the world, is at the core of understanding what our community calls 'the user'. It is the context that explains all data and inspiration we use in our design and creative processes. This SIG provides members of HCI & Design communities with an opportunity to explore and discuss different ways in which we can integrate culture as an essential aspect of our thinking, research and design of products, services and systems.
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Index Terms
- Culture calling: where is CHI?
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