Dear all, apologies! in yesterday's posting regarding the work of Valentina Johanna Baumgartner (A Practical Set of Cultural Dimensions for Global User-interface Analysis and Design. University of Vienna.) I wrote
Both a copy of her survey questionnaire and the diplom-arbeit (in German) can be easily retrieved from the web.
error! while her Diplomarbeit has a German Zusammenfassung / English abstract - both the thesis and questionnaire are in English. Having now had the chance to go through it at least quickly - I recommend it to anyone interested in researching cross-cultural communication in online contexts. While Baumgartner focuses on the top five factors seen to be important in what Fay Sudweeks and I call "culturally-aware design" - as identified by web designers, so this is descriptive, not prescriptive - her synthesis of multiple authors beyond Hall and Hofstede and resulting questionnaire seeks to measure 29 possible factors, and her results rank 22 dimensions as significant. Her Diplomarbeit can be retrieved from: <www.mavas.at/val/downloads/ValBaumgartner_ PracticalSetOfCulturalDimensions.pdf> enjoy! - c. Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies <http://www.drury.edu/gp21> Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Information Ethics Fellow, 2006-07, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, UW-Milwaukee Co-chair, CATaC conferences <www.catacconference.org> Vice-President, Association of Internet Researchers <www.aoir.org> Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php> Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23