HCI新境界：文化适应软件

语言本地化的问题解决以后，软件的国际化还有一个文化差异的问题。人工解决是很贵而且难以全面有效覆盖的。这位高产研究者的下文值得一看：
http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/ddis/publications/


Culturally Adaptive Software: Moving Beyond
Internationalization

Katharina Reinecke and Abraham Bernstein
Department of Informatics, University of Zurich,
Binzmühlestrasse 14, CH-8050 Zurich, Switzerland
{reinecke, bernstein}@ifi.unizh.ch

Abstract.
So far, culture has played a minor role in the design of software. Our
experience with imbuto, a program designed for Rwandan agricultural advisors,
has shown that cultural adaptation increased efficiency, but was extremely
time-consuming and, thus, prohibitively expensive. In order to bridge the gap
between cost-savings on one hand, and international usability on the other, this
paper promotes the idea of culturally adaptive software. In contrast to manual
localization, adaptive software is able to acquire details about an individual's
cultural identity during use. Combining insights from the related fields
international usability, user modeling and user interface adaptation, we show
how research findings can be exploited for an integrated approach to
automatically adapt software to the user's cultural frame.