Multiculturalism Patterns for Web Application Design
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Cultural Models, Multiculturalism, PatternsAbstract
The cultural diversity on the Web is the result of the growth of the Internet in the last years, making that the Web services and applications be every time more used for users in different cultures who, in many cases, are different to the initial users in which the design and development were based. This paper studies the differences in the cultural communication through the Web starting by the cultural dimensions proposed by Victor, Hofstede, Trompenaars and Hall. The Web design elements associated with the cultural dimensions and its behavior in representative Websites of Argentina, Colombia and Spain were identified to finally build a set of multiculturalism Patterns for Web Application Design with those elementsDownloads
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