TY - GEN
T1 - Emerging issues in doing cross-cultural research in multicultural and multilingual societies
AU - Duh, Henry Been Lirn
AU - Chen, Vivian Hsueh Hua
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Cross-cultural research is one of the emerging areas in HCI field lately. There have been fruitful discussions on issues of using measurement or doing field work to address HCI issues 'across countries' or 'across-cultures' . However, methodological concerns in conducting research in multicultural and multilingual society have not been fully explored. This paper reviews research work done and outlines problems and concerns in doing cross-cultural research in multicultural and multilingual society/country. Consequently, we propose a conceptual framework/procedure as a starting point for further development of measurements or field strategies.
AB - Cross-cultural research is one of the emerging areas in HCI field lately. There have been fruitful discussions on issues of using measurement or doing field work to address HCI issues 'across countries' or 'across-cultures' . However, methodological concerns in conducting research in multicultural and multilingual society have not been fully explored. This paper reviews research work done and outlines problems and concerns in doing cross-cultural research in multicultural and multilingual society/country. Consequently, we propose a conceptual framework/procedure as a starting point for further development of measurements or field strategies.
KW - Cross-cultural measurement
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=38149032867&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-73287-7_9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-73287-7_9
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:38149032867
SN - 9783540732860
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 65
EP - 73
BT - Usability and Internationalization
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Usability and Internationalization, UI-HCII 2007
Y2 - 22 July 2007 through 27 July 2007
ER -