This paper explores the notion of an “oral form of design” in response to questions at the heart of a new major partnership project titled “Mobilizing Inuit Cultural Heritage.” It brings together Inuit and Qallunaat (non-Inuit) who are all engaged in various ways of exploring the cognitive and cultural gap […]
2014 • cognition • cultural heritage • culture • design • indigenous design • Inuit • oralityThe Myth of the Universal User: Pursuing a Cultural Variable in ICT Design for Conflict Management
Full Title: The Myth of the Universal User: Pursuing a Cultural Variable in ICT Design for Conflict Management through Quantitative Analysis: Implications from a Ugandan Case Study This study took a novel experimental approach from the field of cognitive linguistics to quantitatively describe the impact of culture on the use […]
2014 • cognition • communication • conflict resolution • culture • ICTs • linguistics • participatory • technology • Uganda