The Challenges of Participatory Design in a Intercultural Context: Designing for Usability in Namibia
The Challenges of Participatory Design in a Intercultural Context: Designing for Usability in Namibia
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跨文化背景下参与式设计的挑战：纳米比亚的可用性设计
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2006
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H. Winschiers
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H. Winschiers
参与发展项目的必要性已得到广泛承认。因此，大量成功的参与式设计实践和原则主要是在北半球发展起来的。然而，尽管采用了参与式技术，发展中国家仍有太多项目倡议失败。跨越学科或文化界限意味着人们应该重新考虑那些被认为理所当然的既定假设、概念和习惯。因此，设计的产品必须在当地环境中进行评估，设计方法、技术和工具也是如此。因此，本文探讨了信息技术设计的文化边缘和跨文化扩展边界的挑战。纳米比亚案例研究支持的理论框架促进了在努力开发可用信息系统的背景下适应文化的设计的必要性。
The need for participation in development projects has been recognised broadly. Thus a great number of successful participatory design practices and principles have evolved mainly in the northern hemisphere. However still too many project initiatives in developing countries collapse although participatory techniques were used. Crossing disciplinary or cultural boundaries implies that one should reconsider established assumptions, concepts and habits that were taken for granted. Thus as much as designed products have to be evaluated in the local context so do design methods, techniques and tools. This paper therefore explores the cultural margins of Information Technology design and the challenges of expanding the boundaries across cultures. A theoretical framework supported by a Namibian case study foster the necessity of an acculturated design in context if striving to develop usable Information Systems.