Young Researcher Track Papers

How to Design Cultural Appropriate Web Sites for Knowledge Transfer Understanding preferences
Femke de Wit, Jan Carel Diehl and Florann A. Arts

In this paper an overview is presented of a study focussing on the impact of the cultural background on users' preferences and experience according to knowledge transfer web sites. To achieve this a multi-method approach was used. The evaluation of existing web sites and the international real user tests afterwards of culturally different web sites, both demonstrate expected (as described in earlier research) and unexpected dissimilarities.

Cultural Background and Technology Acceptance: Evaluation of ICT projects that bridge the digital divide
Marjolein Kortemann

This research-in-progress examines the effects of cultural background on the acceptation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in developing countries. It is a pilot study attempt to investigate whether cultural background values or other factors such as age, gender and education influence people's attitudes towards and acceptance of ICT. To this purpose, an ICT community development project in the south of India is studied. In the Netherlands, this study is replicated on a smaller scale. From the findings it seems that cultural background values have some influence on the acceptance process of ICT. However, a person's decision to accept technology and participate in an ICT skill development course was found to be influenced more strongly by the level of public promotion of the project. Besides that, actual use in developing countries was found to be related to age of the subjects.

Interaction and Interface Design Patterns for Intercultural Collaboration
Nicole Schadewitz

This paper reports about on-going research into interaction design patterns in intercultural remote collaboration. It proposes that interaction and interface design patterns help to communicate and generate new design knowledge in supporting intercultural teamwork. It describes methods used to observe and develop design patterns in collocated, remote and blended collaborative learning and design contexts, and reports preliminary findings of interface and interaction design patterns, which support intercultural remote collaboration.

An Analysis of Persuasive Technology Tool Strategies
Rilla Khaled, James Noble, and Robert Biddle

Persuasive technology is growing in popularity, yet to date, there has been limited research in this field outside of the U.S.A. This paper introduces ongoing research investigating whether the success of persuasive technology is based on how closely it matches the culture of its target audience.

Studying Culture in Human-Computer Interaction
Minna Kamppuri and Markku Tukiainen
University of Joensuu, Finland

Information exchange in multilingual and multicultural virtual communities
Anett Kralisch
Institute of Information Systems
Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany