Non-universal usability? A survey of how usability is understood by chinese and danish users

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 41-50

  Frandsen Thorlacius, Olaf ^a   Hornbæk, Kasper ^a   Hertzum, Morten ^b   Clemmensen, Torkil ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Culture; Questionnaire; Usability

Indexed keywords

DENMARK; QUESTIONNAIRE; USABILITY; USABILITY RESEARCH; VISUAL APPEARANCE;

CELL CULTURE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SURVEYS;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 84892447467     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518708     Document Type: Conference Paper

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