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Designing For Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Time

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Jennyfer Lawrence Taylor,

Alessandro Soro,

Anita Lee Hong,

Margot BreretonAuthors Info & Claims

AfriCHI '16: Proceedings of the First African Conference on Human Computer Interaction

Pages 219 - 224

https://doi.org/10.1145/2998581.2998606

Published: 21 November 2016 Publication History

Abstract

We present ongoing work that seeks to understand cross-cultural perspectives of time, and reflect these temporalities in the participatory design of a cross-cultural Digital Community Noticeboard. Time is a socio-cultural phenomenon that is experienced differently across cultures. Time practices in non-Western cultures can operate in tension with common interfaces for clocks and calendars, whereas other perspectives of time are underrepresented in interactive system design. We conducted community interviews and design workshops to investigate such themes. Two key design principles arising are that 1) time is social and relational, and 2) time is implicit and flexible. We propose ways to incorporate these principles in interface design.

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AfriCHI '16: Proceedings of the First African Conference on Human Computer Interaction

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Soro ABrereton MTaylor JLee Hong ARoe P(2017)A Cross-Cultural Noticeboard for a Remote Community: Design, Deployment, and EvaluationHuman-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 201710.1007/978-3-319-67744-6_26(399-419)Online publication date: 20-Sep-2017
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