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In an increasing global market place, UI designers are faced with the challenges of offering usable products and services to an enormous variety of users in different cultures. So far, the researchers involved are mostly from anthropology, sociology and computer science. They try to develop or evaluate the usability of products in different cultural contexts. However, their researches concentrate on the technical and evaluative level. The field lacks a systematic theory or principle: how can we convert these research results directly to certain tool or framework which can be used by designers directly. In this paper, we summarized previous researches on culture models and cultural markers, conducted an expert review to organize cultural design issues, and proposed a cross-cultural design element framework which can be directly referred and used by designers when designing products for a certain culture.
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Liu, P., Keung, C. (2013). Defining Cross-Culture Theoretical Framework of User Interface. In: Rau, P.L.P. (eds) Cross-Cultural Design. Methods, Practice, and Case Studies. CCD 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8023. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39143-9_26
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