Diary Studies as a Tool for Efficient Cross-Cultural Design
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Lab-based usability testing and location-based ethnography are time consuming and costly. We introduce diary studies as a useful design alternative for crosscultural work. The relative strengths of the methods are assessed and some lessons from our own work with diary studies are shared.
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