A poster mentioned that they want to concentrate on cross-cultural user interface design in school, but hadn’t seen much about it. No one seemed to think that there was enough research/work done on the issue, and I don’t think I’ve really seen anything about it. There are some obvious things like language but the real problem is how different cultures assign different meaning to signs and symbols.
As part of a class project I’ve been reading the Online-News mailing list and responding to some of the issues and discussion brought up there.