Dinesh Katre & Rikke Orngreen 
Human Work Interaction Design: Usability in Social, Cultural and Organizational Contexts [PDF ebook] 
Second IFIP WG 13.6 Conference, HWID 2009, Pune, India, October 7-8, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

We are extremely pleased to present a comprehensive book comprising a collection of research papers which is basically an outcome of the Second IFIP TC 13.6 Working Group conference on Human Work Interaction Design, HWID2009. The conference was held in Pune, India during October 7–8, 2009. It was hosted by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, India, and jointly organized with Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; Aarhus University, Denmark; and Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India. The theme of HWID2009 was Usability in Social, C- tural and Organizational Contexts. The conference was held under the auspices of IFIP TC 13 on Human–Computer Interaction. 1 Technical Committee TC13 on Human–Computer Interaction The committees under IFIP include the Technical Committee TC13 on Human–Computer Interaction within which the work of this volume has been conducted. TC13 on Human–Computer Interaction has as its aim to encourage theoretical and empirical human science research to promote the design and evaluation of human-oriented ICT. Within TC13 there are different working groups concerned with different aspects of human– computer interaction. The flagship event of TC13 is the bi-annual international conference called INTERACT at which both invited and contributed papers are presented. Contributed papers are rigorously refereed and the rejection rate is high.

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Usability in a Cultural Context: A Report on the Scope, Process and Research Results of Cult Usab – The Cultural Usability Project.- Status of HCI and Usability Research in Indian Educational Institutions.- Usability in Cultural Contexts.- A Comparison of What Is Part of Usability Testing in Three Countries.- Augmenting Usability: Cultural Elicitation in HCI.- Exploring Persona-Scenarios – Using Storytelling to Create Design Ideas.- Usability and Culture as Two of the Value Criteria for Evaluating the Artifact.- Personas in Cross-Cultural Projects.- Usability Heuristics and Qualitative Indicators for the Usability Evaluation of Touch Screen Ventilator Systems.- An Overview of a Decade of Journal Publications about Culture and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).- Internationalization and Localization of Usability.- Analyzing Cultural Usability of Mobile Keypad and Displays for Textual Communication in Internationalization and Localization Perspectives.- Design of a Template for Handwriting Based Hindi Text Entry in Handheld Devices.- Development of an Intuitive User-Centric Font Selection Menu.- Usability in Social Contexts.- Interaction Design and Usability of Learning Spaces in 3D Multi-user Virtual Worlds.- Identifying the Cognitive Needs of Visitors and Content Selection Parameters for Designing the Interactive Kiosk Software for Museums.- Case Study of Online Banking in India: User Behaviors and Design Guidelines.- One-Handed Thumb Use on Smart Phones by Semi-literate and Illiterate Users in India.- Usability in Organizational Contexts.- Developing a Mobile Phone Based GUI for Users in the Construction Industry: A Case Study.- Usability Considerations in Developing a Graphic Interface for Intra Office Communications.- Interaction Design as a Multimodal Conversation.