Cultural differences between Taiwanese and German web user - Challenges for intercultural user testing

ICEIS 2008 - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

Volumn HCI, Issue , 2008, Pages 62-69

  Schmitz, Anna Karen ^a   Mandl, Thomas ^a   Womser Hacker, Christa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HILDESHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intercultural usability; Web design

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; TASK DESIGN; USER TESTING; USER TESTS; WEB DESIGNS; WEB USERS;

DESIGN; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; WEBSITES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 55849102134     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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