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| P 3.1: Methods and Process |
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| "Globalisation Practices in the FinnishSoftware Industry" |
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Jarkko Immonen, University of Joensuu, Department of Computer Science, Finland
Jorma Sajaniemi, University of Joensuu, Department of Computer Science, Finland |
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| Finnish software industry representatives were interviewed in order to find out the current state of software globalisation processes and practices. On the basis of the interviews, it seems that localisation often equals to translation. In addition, there seems to be many problems that could be solved by using more defined processes and by enhancing the communication and co-operation between software developers and localisation vendors. |
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| "Cultural Repository – How can Culture be Integrated into an Engineering Portal?" |
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Barbara Bumeder, Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Germany
Eva Dietz, Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Germany
Matthias Sander, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Institut für Rechneranwendung in Planung und Konstruktion (RPK), Germany |
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| This paper presents an approach on how to overcome intercultural barriers in European-Chinese engineering projects via an Internet portal. It is the result of one of the work packages of the EU project DRAGON. In consideration of the main users’ requirements and the special preconditions that Chinese-European collaboration implicates, portal functionalities are conceived that support the project participants throughout their intercultural collaboration process. |
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| P 3.2: International Usability |
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| "Approaching the challenge of gathering cross-cultural requirements" |
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Christian Sturm
University of Freiburg, Germany
Siemens ICM, Munich, Germany |
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| Ethnographic research for product development is of current interest, where different approaches are discussed. Based on the article „TLCC - Towards a framework for systematic and successful product internationalization”, presented at last years IWIPS, this presentation gives an overview of the current PhD project, which includes a report of a recent field work about the use of mobile devices of Mexico’s youth. |
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| "Cross-cultural Aspects of User Understanding and Behaviour: Evaluation of a Virtual Campus Website by Users from North-America, England, the Netherlands and Japan." |
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| Vanessa Evers, Department of Social Science Informatics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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| This paper reports the findings from an international user experience study evaluating a virtual campus website. The research aims to identify whether users from different national backgrounds have different understanding of the system state as communicated by the interface, whether they exhibit different user behaviour and whether the factors which influence this behaviour are different. Findings suggest that different real world experience and differences in ideas indeed influence user understanding and behaviour as well as influencing navigation and information search strategies. |
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Last update: 24 July 2003 |
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