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.

In this paper we describe our initial research on crosscultural uptake of Beehive, an IBM-internal social networking site. We focus on microblogging through status messages as a first pass at observing distinct patterns of usage in three geographies – China, India and the United States. We conclude by outlining our future research directions on this topic.

Team-based working and employee well-being: A crosscultural comparison of United Kingdom and Hong Kong health services Timothy T. C. So a , Michael A. West b & Jeremy F. Dawson b a Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, and Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham, UK b Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham, UK Version of record first published: 0...

The research article explores the evolving trends in modern education, which are microlearning and microteaching. authors analyze microteaching as most progressive up-to-date approach. This brings up role of globalization process education encompassing crosscultural education. Although micro learning teaching embrace many demands teaching, approaches catering to needs students from different re...

The purpose of this reflective paper is to explore ways provide quality cultural training the faculty a small Christian college in area blending Indigenous and Western knowing. Although we are using various methods, including one-week immersion an Alaskan Native village, it seems that progress towards indigenizing curriculum methodologies agonizingly slow. How can bring effective change Western...

In this paper I examine the role of generic cognitive mechanisms in language structure and use through an analysis of proverbs related to dogs in English and Spanish. I give an outline of proverb cognition based on universal principles, which constitutes an alternative view to that of Lakoff & Turner (1989), and is in line of Ruiz de Mendoza (1999b: 54), who puts forward a more economic and mot...