Cross-cultural usability of the library metaphor Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:432161, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Duncker, Elke}, booktitle = {JCDL '02: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries}, citeulike-article-id = {432161}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=544269}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/544220.544269}, comment = {Paper presents an investigation of the cross-cultural use and usability of interaction metaphors by studying the library metaphor. The ethnographic study was conducted on the Maori people of New Zealand, by examining their culture, form of knowledge transfer and use of physical and digital libraries. It points out why and when the library metaphor fails these users.}, doi = {10.1145/544220.544269}, isbn = {1581135130}, keywords = {cross-cultural-hci, ethnography, metaphor}, pages = {223--230}, posted-at = {2008-07-29 18:59:09}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM Press}, title = {Cross-cultural usability of the library metaphor}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/544220.544269}, year = {2002} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:432161 L3 - citeulike-article-id:432161 SN - 1581135130 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 230 TI - Cross-cultural usability of the library metaphor PB - ACM Press T2 - JCDL '02: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries SP - 223 KW - cross-cultural-hci KW - ethnography KW - metaphor N1 - Paper presents an investigation of the cross-cultural use and usability of interaction metaphors by studying the library metaphor. The ethnographic study was conducted on the Maori people of New Zealand, by examining their culture, form of knowledge transfer and use of physical and digital libraries. It points out why and when the library metaphor fails these users. AU - Duncker, Elke PY - 2002/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/544220.544269 ER -