Usability and Internationalization. HCI and Culture

This is the first of a two-volume set that constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Usability and Internationalization, UIHCII 2007, held in Beijing, China in July 2007. The papers of this first volume cover HCI and culture and are organized in topical sections on cross-cultural design, internationalization and intercultural usability, as well as user studies.

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I: Cross-Cultural Design.- Panel Discussion: Global Innovative Design for Social Change.- Enabling User Centered Design Processes in Open Source Communities.- A Dramatic Day in the Life of a Shared Indian Mobile Phone.- Smart Strategies for Creating Culture Friendly Products and Interfaces.- When in Rome... Be Yourself: A Perspective on Dealing with Cultural Dissimilarities in Ethnography.- Designing User Interfaces for Mobile Entertaining Devices with Cross-Cultural Considerations.- Kansei Design with Cross Cultural Perspectives.- The Challenge of Dealing with Cultural Differences in Industrial Design in Emerging Countries: Latin-American Case Studies.- Emerging Issues in Doing Cross-Cultural Research in Multicultural and Multilingual Societies.- The Digital and the Divine: Taking a Ritual View of Communication and ICT Interaction.- Shanghaied in a User-Friendly Manner - An American's Initial Experiences in a Full-Time Usability Job in China.- A Tool for Cross-Cultural Human Computer Interaction Analysis.- Locating Culture in HCI with Information Kiosks and Social Networks.- HCI and SE - The Cultures of the Professions.- Development of Integrated Analysis System and Tool of Perception, Recognition, and Behavior for Web Usability Test: With Emphasis on Eye-Tracking, Mouse-Tracking, and Retrospective Think Aloud.- Cultural Difference and Its Effects on User Research Methodologies.- A Development of Graphical Interface for Decision Making Process Including Real-Time Consistency Evaluation.- Using Webzine to Create Effective Communications Between China and the West.- Designing "Culture" into Modern Product: A Case Study of Cultural Product Design.- Digital Archive Database for Cultural Product Design.- Cross-Cultural Understanding of Content and Interface in the Context of E-Learning Systems.- Differences in Task Descriptions in the Think Aloud Test.- The Use of Cognitive and Social Psychological Principles in Field Research: How It Furthers Our Understanding of User Behaviors, Needs and Motivations, and Informs the Product Design Process.- The Role of Annotation in Intercultural Communication.- An Activity Approach to Cross-Cultural Design.- Creating an International Design Team.- Incorporating the Cultural Dimensions into the Theoretical Framework of Website Information Architecture.- II: International and Intercultural Usability.- Cross-Use: Cross-Cultural Usability User Evaluation- In-Context.- Testing Remote Users: An Innovative Technology.- Web Usability and Evaluation: Issues and Concerns.- The Impact of Different Icon Sets on the Usability of a Word Processor.- Systems Development Methods and Usability in Norway: An Industrial Perspective.- Activities for Usability in Lenovo China.- The Cultural Usability (CULTUSAB) Project: Studies of Cultural Models in Psychological Usability Evaluation Methods.- Cultural Usability Tests - How Usability Tests Are Not the Same All over the World.- Getting the Most Out of Personas for Product Usability Enhancements.- Testing Object Management (TOM): A Prototype for Usability Knowledge Management in Global Software.- Assessing Usability Problems in Latin-American Academic Webpages with Cognitive Walkthroughs and Datamining Techniques.- Usability Constructs: A Cross-Cultural Study of How Users and Developers Experience Their Use of Information Systems.- A Study for Usability Risk Level in Physical User Interface of Mobile Phone.- Tracing Cognitive Processes for Usability Evaluation: A Cross Cultural Mind Tape Study.- Lessons from Applying Usability Engineering to Fast-Paced Product Development Organizations.- An Axiomatic Method for Cross Cultural Usability Analysis.- The Impact of Culture on Usability: Designing Usable Products for the International User.- A Digital Training System for Freehand Sketch Practice.- Culture Issues in Traffic Sign Usability.- International Remote Usability Evaluation: The Bliss of Not Being There.- A Framework for Evaluating the Usability of Spoken Language Dialog Systems (SLDSs).- Usability of Adaptable and Adaptive Menus.- Towards Detecting Cognitive Load and Emotions in Usability Studies Using the RealEYES Framework.- Relationship Model in Cultural Usability Testing.- An Empirical Evaluation of Graphical Usable Interface on Mobile Chat.- A Tale of Two Teams: Success and Failure in Virtual Team Meetings.- Assumptions Considered Harmful.- Analyzing Non-verbal Cues in Usability Evaluation Tests.- Online Analysis of Hierarchical Events in Meetings.- III: User Studies.- A Cross Culture Study on Phone Carrying and Physical Personalization.- Performance Modeling Using Anthropometry for Minority Population.- Investigating the Differences in Web Browsing Behaviour of Chinese and European Users Using Mouse Tracking.- The Effect of Morphological Elements on the Icon Recognition in Smart Phones.- Performance Evaluation of the Wheel Navigation Key Used for Mobile Phone and MP3.- Correlation Between Cognitive Style and Structure and Flow in Mobile Phone Interface: Comparing Performance and Preference of Korean and Dutch Users.- Incorporating JND into the Design of Mobile Device Display.- Fit Evaluation of 3D Virtual Garment.- Evaluation of Two Pointing Control Devices for a Cellular Phone.- Design and Evaluation of a Handled Trackball as a Robust Interface in Motion.- Impact of Culture on International User Research -A Case Study: Integration Pre-study in Paper Mills.- Computer Mediated Banking: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of SMEs.- A Comparative Study of Thai and UK Older Web Users.- A Qualitative Oriented Study About IT Procurement Processes: Comparison of 4 European Countries.- An Empirical Study on the Smallest Comfortable Button/Icon Size on Touch Screen.- Usability Evaluation of Children Edutainment Software.- Effect of Different Modal Feedback on Attention Recovery.- Do We Talk Differently: Cross Culture Study on Conference Call.- The Mobile Phone's Optimal Vibration Frequency in Mobile Environments.- A Comparative Study of Mid-market IT Customers in China and U.S..