Cultural setting is an intrinsic part of what we?re trying to capture and use in multimedia systems. However, being in our own culture (both everyday culture and professional culture) we forget that multimedia interfaces and communication are culture-specific. This article gives some great insights that stem from diversity in countries (and cultures) as well as inside the interdisciplinary multimedia community.
Index Terms:
human-centered multimedia, culture, multimedia and culture, multimedia systems, multimedia interfaces, communication, HCI, human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing
Citation:
Alejandro Jaimes, "Human-Centered Multimedia: Culture, Deployment, and Access," IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 12-19, Jan.-Mar. 2006, doi:10.1109/MMUL.2006.8