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The truth about universal design: how knowledge on basic human functioning, used to inform design, differs across cultures
No full textThis paper offers a literature review of how findings from human psychology can be used as guidance for the design of interactive products for specific cultural settings. By considering cultural differences in human social psychology, we challenge the global applicability of design rules which are based on commonly held assumptions of universal human psychological functioning. We offer examples of social phenomena that are held as universal truths about human social functioning and show how they differ across cultures. This knowledge about cultural differences in basic human socio-psychological behaviours is then used to discuss consequences for human interaction with interactive technologies and design
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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