Global Demands of non-european Markets for the Design of User-Interfaces

Abstract Nowadays the interaction between different cultures has become a common occurrence. The Institute for Production Automation of the University Kaiserslautern investigated the emerging markets in the Far East to evaluate the differences of eastern cultures in machine operation. This evaluation identifies the momentary requirements and needs. Most of the developing countries, have prior needs than a well designed human-machine-interface. Nevertheless the study pointed out, that user-interface-design has to take into account the social and cultural differences of these markets.