International Journal of Design: Cultural Aspects of Interact
September 9, 2007 | Levent OZLER
The notion of interaction design has become an indispensable aspect of product design and development, especially for those products with embedded information technologies.
While traditional industrial design focuses on a product's functionality and its physical features, interaction design focuses on the interactive experience of users.
Since products are becoming more pervasively and more tightly interwoven with our daily activities, design calls for a deeper understanding of the diverse perspectives of product use.
Culture has been considered to play a critical role for users in their understanding, acceptance, positioning, and use of an artifact.
The quality of an interactive experience is produced in a particular cultural context and is determined or evaluated in that context.
Yet, when it comes to incorporating cultural factors effectively in design practice, knowledge is insufficient at all levels -- conceptual, theoretical, methodological, and practical.
Cultural factors need to be integrated in the design process in order to achieve the high quality of product interaction that enables our experience with a product to be effective and enjoyable.
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