Improving performance, perceived usability, and aesthetics with culturally adaptive user interfaces

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Reinecke, Katharina ^a   Bernstein, Abraham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Cultural adaptivity; Localization; MOCCA; Usability; User experience

Indexed keywords

AESTHETICS; CULTURAL ADAPTIVITY; LOCALIZATION; MOCCA; USABILITY; USER EXPERIENCE;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 79960833368     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1970378.1970382     Document Type: Article

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