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Cultural diversity in interface design

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Christine L. BorgmanAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, Volume 24, Issue 4

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https://doi.org/10.1145/142167.142177

Published: 01 October 1992 Publication History

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One of many factors contributing to the lack of application of human factors principles to interface design is that designers fail to appreciate the range of population diversity, too often constructing systems on the assumption that their users are much like themselves. Years of research on individual differences in human-computer interaction have shown that user populations are not homogenous in their ability to utilize a given interface, with performance ranges of as much as 30 to 1 in the time to accomplish a given task. We now have methods to study individual differences factors, identifying the tasks most heavily influenced by variations in human ability, and changing the interface design to make it less susceptible to these factors.

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Cultural diversity in interface design
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Integrated and visual development environments

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ACM SIGCHI Bulletin Volume 24, Issue 4

Oct. 1992

49 pages

ISSN:0736-6906

DOI:10.1145/142167

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Bill Hefley
Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA

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