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the Western [HCI] community [to understand] Eastern culture.”

The numbers in the forum should please uiGarden’s intended readers: 4,906 posts in 814 Chinese threads, and 950 posts in 357 English threads. The English-language forum does not provide much value, so the Western reader is left salivating over the potentially juicy debates going on in the Chinese forum. Translating user comments and putting them on both versions of the article would be a welcomed feature for a cross-cultural publication, a goal that is tantalizingly close and would set uiGarden apart.

The Chinese are fiercely proud and highly informed of their culture and history. There is a simple reason why news topics and forums in China are so popular: The Chinese love to discuss China. Many of these comments and opinions on uiGarden, rich with cultural nuances, are commonly hidden from Western readers because they come in the form of casual comments in the thousands of Chinese forums and blogs. uiGarden is one resource that has the potential of appealing to Western readers, while providing Eastern readers with a reason to come back. If the site’s editors can include more articles from Asian authors and make user commentary transparent across the site, uiGarden will be poised to enhance cross-cultural communication among HCI practitioners, ultimately leading to a harmonious partnership, not competition, between both groups.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Neema Moraveji studies the design of education technology while pursuing his Ph.D. at Stanford University. Before that, he was an HCI researcher with Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing for two years. Before that, he studied at Carnegie Mellon University’s HCI Institute. And before that, he studied at the University of Maryland’s HCI Lab. Before that, things are fuzzy, but he remembers scores of trips to local fruit markets in countries around the world. Zhengjie Liu is founder and director of the Sino-European Usability Center (SEUC) ( www.usabili-tychina.com), professor of HCI at Dalian Maritime University in China, and co-founder and co-chair of ACM SIGCHI China. He is one of the pioneers in HCI and usability in China since the early 1990s. He provides consultancy to industries and conducts research funded by the public funds from the European Union and China.