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dc.contributor.authorPineda, Roger G.
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-19T09:36:26Z
dc.date.available2014-08-19T09:36:26Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.isbn978-951-39-5787-2
dc.identifier.otheroai:jykdok.linneanet.fi:1444317
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/44053
dc.description.abstractTechnology touches so many facets of contemporary life that one is not necessarily conscious any more of how and why it affects daily experience. Awareness of technology’s role often surfaces only when something goes wrong with a product. At that moment, people become aware of a misalignment between their ways of thinking, feeling and behaving, and the form/function of a product, presumably designed to make life easier. Equally ubiquitous and beyond daily awareness are cognitive, affective, and behavioural processes patterned by culture. It has been noted that cultural factors influence the perception and usage of technology. Understanding these processes is important to researchers, designers and engineers. They try to create products whose functions are aligned with people’s needs. Achieving alignment means fundamentally helping people to realize goals and well-being. However, the processes employed towards this design goal need support from theoretical models that account for cultural similarities as well as differences. The scarcity of theoretical models, which could guide a culture-responsive technology design, has been identified as one of the root causes of the alignment problem. This dissertation addresses the facets of that problem from the interdisciplinary perspective of cognitive science. It explicates the relations between technology, culture, and life, and it synthesizes a theoretical understanding of a culturally-responsive human-technology interaction (HTI) research and design. This theoretical model suggests that awareness of similarities and differences in culture’s influence on people’s ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving with regard to technology would help mitigate the problem of misalignment. It could also open possibilities for innovations, which improve the quality of life. It proposes designating culture as a point of convergence for current research and design approaches in order to facilitate the integration and accumulation of knowledge on design-relevant cultural factors.fi
dc.format.extent1 verkkoaineisto (247 sivua)
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Jyväskylä
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJyväskylä studies in computing
dc.rightsIn Copyright
dc.subject.otherculture
dc.subject.othercultural human-technology interaction research
dc.subject.othercultural materialism
dc.subject.otherform of life
dc.subject.othermeaning of tech
dc.subject.otherusability
dc.subject.othervalues
dc.titleTechnology in culture : a theoretical discourse on convergence in human-technology interaction
dc.typeDiss.
dc.identifier.urnURN:ISBN:978-951-39-5787-2
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
dc.type.ontasotVäitöskirjafi
dc.type.ontasotDoctoral dissertationen
dc.contributor.tiedekuntaFaculty of Information Technologyen
dc.contributor.tiedekuntaInformaatioteknologian tiedekuntafi
dc.contributor.yliopistoUniversity of Jyväskyläen
dc.contributor.yliopistoJyväskylän yliopistofi
dc.contributor.oppiaineTietojenkäsittelytiedefi
dc.relation.issn1456-5390
dc.relation.numberinseries191
dc.rights.accesslevelopenAccess
dc.subject.ysokognitiotiede
dc.subject.ysoihminen-konejärjestelmät
dc.subject.ysoteknologia
dc.subject.ysokulttuuri
dc.subject.ysokulttuurisidonnaisuus
dc.subject.ysokulttuurivaikutukset
dc.subject.ysodigitaalinen kulttuuri
dc.subject.ysoaineellinen kulttuuri
dc.subject.ysoelämäntapa
dc.subject.ysokäytettävyys
dc.subject.ysokäyttäjälähtöisyys
dc.subject.ysotuotekehitys
dc.subject.ysomuotoilu
dc.subject.ysoarvot
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