Cultural usability tests - How usability tests are not the same all over the world

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4559 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages 281-290

  Clemmensen, Torkil ^a   Qingxin, Shi ^a   Kumar, Jyoti ^b   Huiyang, Li ^c   Xianghong, Sun ^c   Yammiyavar, Pradeep ^b  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

^c INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cultural usability; Field study; Think aloud; Usability test

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

CULTURAL VARIATIONS; USABILITY EVALUATION;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 38349134026     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73287-7_35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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