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This chapter discusses some open issues in HCI research on (and with) culture. These issues are classified into three (non-mutually exclusive) categories: theoretical, practical, and controversial.
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This open issue is inspired by Hertzum’s commentary on usability as a sensitizing concept (Hertzum, 2018). This section adapts his commentary to the context of culture within HCI research.
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As opposed to, for instance, the theory of types of cultural value orientations put forward by Schwartz (2004), which has received less research attention than Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions. Yet, it draws on data gathered in 1988–2000 with 80 samples of school teachers (k-12) from 58 national groups and 115 samples of college students from 64 national groups, together constituting 67 nations and 70 different.
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Whether these issues are attributable to the model per se and / or the way in which it has been adopted and used is out of the scope of this synthesis.
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Sayago, S. (2023). Some Open Issues. In: Cultures in Human-Computer Interaction. Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30243-5_6
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