Mobile knowledge workers' user interface cultures

Abstract

Information and communication tools (ICTs) have become a major influencer of how modern work is carried out. Methods of usercentered design do not however take into account the full complexity of technology and user interface context the users live in. User interface cultures analysis aims at providing to designers new ways and strategies to better take into account the current user interface environment when designing new products. This paper describes the reasoning behind user interface cultures analysis and shows examples of it used when studying mobile and distributed knowledge workers. ©2008 HFT2008.