Ergonomics International Journal ISSN: 2577-2953 Acculturation in Human Culture Interaction - A Case Study of Culture Meaning in Cultural Product Design Ergonomics Int J Acculturation in Human Culture Interaction - A Case Study of Culture Meaning in Cultural Product Design Ya-Juan Gao 1 , Weichen Chang 2 , Wen-Ting Fang 1 and Rungtai Lin 1 * 1 Graduate School of Creative Industry Design, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan 2 Department of Industrial Design, Chang Gung University, Taiwan *Corresponding author: Rungtai Lin, Professor, Graduate School of Creative Industry Design, National Taiwan University of Arts, 59,Sec. 1, Daguan Rd., Banqiao Dist., New Taipei City, Taiwan, Email: rtlin@mail.ntua.edu.tw Abstract Acculturation plays an important role in cultural product design with embedded information technologies. Therefore designing culture into products will become a design approach in interaction design. Interaction design has switched focus from usability and cognitive ergonomics to the affective aspects of user interactive experience. For cultural product design, we need a better understanding of acculturation in human-culture interaction not just for taking part in the cultural context, but also for developing the interactive experience of users. The framework for human-culture interaction in design process proposed and discussed in this paper is of value for acculturation in cultural product design. The framework also can help designers to consider how to design “culture features” into cultural products as well as provide users with a valuable reference for understanding interactive experience in products. While cultural features become an important issue in the interactive user experience, we need a better understanding of the acculturation process not only for the designer’s model, but also for that of the user. For future studies, the acculturation process between human and culture in the cultural product design is worthy of further in-depth study. Keywords: Interaction Design; User Experience; Cultural Product Design Introduction Designing culture into products will be a design approach in the global market. Using Cultural features to add extra value to a product can benefit not only economic growth, but also promote unique local culture in the global market [1-3]. From the design point of view, culture plays an important role in the design field, and cross-cultural design will be a key design evaluation point in the future [4,5]. Obviously, we need a better understanding of cross-cultural communications for the global market and local design. Acculturation is a process of exchanging features that are composed of the traditional culture, cultural features, cultural objects, interface design, interaction experience, user emotion, and user response [6-8]. The most important part of this process is the user experience added in the cultural product design process and involved in emotional design considerations. Emotional design has gained popularity and broad application in product design [9]. Emotional design is a design approach to constructing relationships between user experiences and product properties in order to use these properties to design products that fulfill a user’s desired experiences [10-12]. Review Article Volume 2 Issue 1 Received Date: January 19, 2018 Published Date: January 26, 2018 DOI: 10.23880/eoij-16000135