Title
Culture-centered design: culture audit of screen designs for educational software in saudi arabia
Abstract
This paper describes screen design issues in a culture audit performed on software prior to translation. The authors found that this effort was cost-effective, because, for relatively little money and time, one can identify problematic items that translation services may not uncover, avoiding the end result of translating well what should never have been localized in the first place. In the cultural analysis section, we provide an overview of the wider cultural and social context of the rapid educational reform currently underway in the target country, Saudi Arabia. Because most educated users in the target country have learned to use the Microsoft Office Suite, we recommend that the design of Office be used as a baseline reference for any redesign.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-21660-2_10
HCI (15)
Keywords
Field
DocType
saudi arabia,baseline reference,cultural analysis section,culture-centered design,target country,microsoft office suite,culture audit,screen design issue,problematic item,translation service,educational software,end result,business,management,user experience,design,user interface,culture,audit
Educational software,User experience design,World Wide Web,Audit,Suite,Computer science,Microsoft Office,Software,User interface,Cultural analysis
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6775
0302-9743
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
1
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aaron Marcus158697.53
Emilie W. Gould2204.68
Laurie Wigham320.78