13 research outputs found
Cultural Marker Identification for Web Application Design Targeted for Malaysian Multicultural Users
The rapid growth of technology result in two contradictory phenomenon, the global world becomes smaller while the internet users increase drastically. This diversity of users becomes the main attention toward the study of human computer interaction due to the influential of usersâ background toward the usability of web application whereby combination of color strongly determine userâs preference and engagement level. Â Hence, determination of color based cultural marker is crucial to the interface design process in order to fulfill the need of diverse users. Most of the empirical study so far has been carried in western contextual. As a result, suggested marker are not applicable in eastern perspective, particularly Malaysia which consist of multicultural society. This article provides content analysis of the website application targeted to multicultural audience to determine the prominent color based cultural markers. More importantly, identifications of the markers could assist the interface designers towards creating web based application that reflected the multicultural audience preferences
Usability Perceptions of Culturally Adapted Web Pages
The internationalization of websites should lead to highly usable web pages with excellent user experience. As a result, the understanding and implementation of usersâ preferences for functionality, look, feel and aesthetics in website design has become a fundamental issue that needs to be adequately addressed. This research empirically demonstrates the interaction of user culture with user perceptions of perceived navigability, perceived aesthetics, and satisfaction, using a set of translated Australian and Chinese websites. The results show that by implementing culturally specific design elements it is possible to have a positive influence on these perceptions, but the relationships are more complex than originally hypothesized. This work highlights the importance of accommodating the different information presentation and interaction styles of culturally diverse users to improve their user experience when using websites
USEFul : a framework to mainstream web site usability through automated evaluation
A paradox has been observed whereby web site usability is proven to be an essential element in a web site, yet at the same time there exist an abundance of web pages with poor usability. This discrepancy is the result of limitations that are currently preventing web developers in the commercial sector from producing usable web sites. In this paper we propose a framework whose objective is to alleviate this problem by automating certain aspects of the usability evaluation process. Mainstreaming comes as a result of automation, therefore enabling a non-expert in the field of usability to conduct the evaluation. This results in reducing the costs associated with such evaluation. Additionally, the framework allows the flexibility of adding, modifying or deleting guidelines without altering the code that references them since the guidelines and the code are two separate components. A comparison of the evaluation results carried out using the framework against published evaluations of web sites carried out by web site usability professionals reveals that the framework is able to automatically identify the majority of usability violations. Due to the consistency with which it evaluates, it identified additional guideline-related violations that were not identified by the human evaluators.peer-reviewe
Identifying Cultural Markers for Web Application Design Targeted to a Multi-cultural Audience
This paper addresses the problem of defining a Web de-sign process suitable for the multi-cultural audience of a Web application in the globalization era. Traditional us-ability guidelines implicitly depend on the background of the audience, and may overlook specific preferences dic-tated by the cultural context. To overcome this limit, the no-tion of culturability has been proposed, which extends tradi-tional usability to take into account usage preferences stem-ming from multiple cultural conventions. The paper builds upon a case study (the comparison of Chinese and Western e-commerce Web sites) and proposes a working definition of culturability, based on cultural markers; moreover, an effec-tive methodology for identifying cultural markers and turn-ing them into design guidelines is established and validated by letting groups of users with different cultures evaluate ex-emplary Web applications incorporating different versions of the candidate cultural markers.
Identifying Cultural Markers for Web Application Design Targeted to a Multi-cultural Audience
none2Piero Fraternali; Massimo TisiFraternali, Piero; Tisi, Massim
Design e processamento cognitivo de informação online : um estudo de Eye Tracking
Tese de mestrado. Multimédia. Faculdade de Engenharia. Universidade do Porto. 200
The Shapes of Cultures: A Case Study of Social Network Sites/Services Design in the U.S. and China
With growing popularity of the use of social network sites/services (SNSs) throughout the world, the global dominance of SNSs designed in the western industrialized countries, especially in the United Sates, seems to have become an inevitable trend. As internationalization has become a common practice in designing SNSs in the United States, is localization still a viable practice? Does culture still matter in designing SNSs? This dissertation aims to answer these questions by comparing the user interface (UI) designs of a U.S.-based SNS, Twitter, and a China-based SNS, Sina Weibo, both of which have assumed an identity of a âmicrobloggingâ service, a sub category of SNSs. This study employs the theoretical lens of the theory of technical identity, user-centered website cultural usability studies, and communication and media studies. By comparing the UI designs, or the âform,â of the two microblogging sites/services, I illustrate how the social functions of a technological object as embedded and expressed in the interface designs are preserved or changed as the technological object that has developed a relatively stable identity (as a microblogging site/service) in one culture is transferred between the âhomeâ culture and another. The analysis in this study focuses on design elements relevant to users as members of networks, members of audience, and publishers/broadcasters. The results suggest that the designs carry disparate biases towards modes of communication and social affordances, which indicate a shift of the identity of microblogging service/site across cultures
Lineamientos de diseño con enfoque cultural adaptados al entorno peruano: Un caso de estudio en una entidad gubernamental
El presente proyecto de fin de carrera tiene como objetivo elaborar lineamientos de
diseño para sitios web gubernamentales enfocado en el entorno cultural peruano para
incrementar la usabilidad y el nivel de satisfacciĂłn de los usuarios gracias al anĂĄlisis de
modelos culturales y la validación de lineamientos de diseño obtenidos mediante evaluación
de usabilidad con usuarios.
Hoy en dĂa, considerar aspectos de usabilidad en productos de software es de suma importancia
para lograr atraer y retener usuarios. Si bien la importancia de la usabilidad ha ido en aumento
y es considerada clave, la inclusión de aspectos culturales en el diseño y evaluación de sitios
web aĂșn no es ampliamente difundida. SegĂșn la revisiĂłn de literatura, existen estudios que
relacionan la usabilidad con temas culturales en pĂĄginas web. Sin embargo, pocos estudios
incluyen a PerĂș dentro de su anĂĄlisis, asĂ como tambiĂ©n son mayormente aplicados en sitios de
comercio electrĂłnico por su exposiciĂłn a usuarios de diferentes culturas.
Este proyecto es consistente con los componentes que definen a la usabilidad y realiza un
anålisis comparativo de elementos de diseño presentes en sitios web y su relación con las
caracterĂsticas culturales asociadas a un modelo cultural, el cual se selecciona en base a un
anĂĄlisis de modelos culturales presentes en la literatura.
Finalmente, el presente estudio obtiene un listado de lineamientos de diseño que incluyen
caracterĂsticas culturales peruanas, los cuales al ser aplicados pueden demostrar una mejora en
el nivel de satisfacciĂłn de los usuarios peruanos
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Group level influence on blog's design behaviour
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.The purpose of this research is twofold. Firstly, this research aims to investigate
whether the design preferences of bloggers in selected countries from different cultural
backgrounds are influenced by national culture traits. The investigation involves two categories of blogs selected within a country where the bloggers share similar attributes such as language or geographical location. Secondly, simultaneously, this research intends to discover the possibility of the impact of group level influence on design preferences of bloggers who are linked together in a network through bloggersâ linkage or blogrolls. To achieve the said purposes, observations on both the global and local blogs of six selected countries are conducted using the content analysis method. This method allows this research to observe web pages and rate design preferences of bloggers via a coding system, similar to the method used to analyse documents or manuscripts to find common themes or keywords. A total of 612 blogs (306 global and 306 local) are observed for a period of nine months to identify cultural traits on design behaviour based on national culture indicators chosen from prominent literatures. To prevent a systematic error, an independent second observer was appointed and the results obtained are compared using a statistical methodology. In addition, translators were also engaged to verify that the translations are of a correct meaning and comprehension since blogs use various national languages on their web pages. The data were statistically tested using SPSS engaging in statistical analysis of frequency table, Cross-Tabulation and cluster analyses and MANOVA. Results shown that design preferences between both the global and local blogs in each country, has significant differences in most of the design indicators chosen. The findings indicate that the national culture influence on design preferences in linked networks of blogs is weakening indicating another type of influence might be in existence. The results also provide evidence that blogs in linked networks are statistically significant as a cluster or a group by themselves and are independent from one cluster to another. The research, however, studies only six countries from six different cultural dimensions. The inclusion of other countries, similar to or different from the countries under investigation, would be an added advantage. Furthermore, the use of only a single type of global blog provider (blogspot.com) in this research could be extended to other global blog providers such as wordpress.com to give fairer coverage of major and popular global blogs as well as providing a wider generalisation effect of the research findings
A Usability Inspection Method for Model-driven Web Development Processes
Las aplicaciones Web son consideradas actualmente un elemento esencial e indispensable en toda actividad empresarial, intercambio de informaciĂłn y motor de redes sociales. La usabilidad, en este tipo de aplicaciones, es reconocida como uno de los factores clave mĂĄs importantes, puesto que la facilidad o dificultad que los usuarios experimentan con estas aplicaciones determinan en gran medida su Ă©xito o fracaso. Sin embargo, existen varias limitaciones en las propuestas actuales de evaluaciĂłn de usabilidad Web, tales como: el concepto de usabilidad sĂłlo se soporta parcialmente, las evaluaciones de usabilidad se realizan principalmente cuando la aplicaciĂłn Web se ha desarrollado, hay una carencia de guĂas sobre cĂłmo integrar adecuadamente la usabilidad en el desarrollo Web, y tambiĂ©n existe una carencia de mĂ©todos de evaluaciĂłn de la usabilidad Web que hayan sido validados empĂricamente. AdemĂĄs, la mayorĂa de los procesos de desarrollo Web no aprovechan los artefactos producidos en las fases de diseño. Estos artefactos software intermedios se utilizan principalmente para guiar a los desarrolladores y para documentar la aplicaciĂłn Web, pero no para realizar evaluaciones de usabilidad. Dado que la trazabilidad entre estos artefactos y la aplicaciĂłn Web final no estĂĄ bien definida, la realizaciĂłn de evaluaciones de usabilidad de estos artefactos resulta difĂcil. Este problema se mitiga en el desarrollo Web dirigido por modelos (DWDM), donde los artefactos intermedios (modelos) que representan diferentes perspectivas de una aplicaciĂłn Web, se utilizan en todas las etapas del proceso de desarrollo, y el cĂłdigo fuente final se genera automĂĄticamente a partir estos modelos. Al tener en cuenta la trazabilidad entre estos modelos, la evaluaciĂłn de estos modelos permite detectar problemas de usabilidad que experimentaran los usuarios finales de la aplicaciĂłn Web final, y proveer recomendaciones para corregir estos problemas de usabilidad durante fases tempranas del proceso de desarrollo Web.
Esta tesis tiene como objetivo, tratando las anteriores limitaciones detectadas, el proponer un mĂ©todo de inspecciĂłn de usabilidad que se puede integrar en diferentes procesos de desarrollo Web dirigido por modelos. El mĂ©todo se compone de un modelo de usabilidad Web que descompone el concepto de usabilidad en sub-caracterĂsticas, atributos y mĂ©tricas genĂ©ricas, y un proceso de evaluaciĂłn de usabilidad Web (WUEP), que proporciona directrices sobre cĂłmo el modelo de usabilidad se puede utilizar para llevar a cabo evaluaciones especĂficas. Las mĂ©tricas genĂ©ricas del modelo de usabilidad deben operacionalizarse con el fin de ser aplicables a los artefactos software de diferentes mĂ©todos de desarrollo Web y en diferentes niveles de abstracciĂłn, lo que permite evaluar la usabilidad en varias etapas del proceso de desarrollo Web, especialmente en las etapas tempranas. Tanto el modelo de usabilidad como el proceso de evaluaciĂłn estĂĄn alineados con la Ășltima norma ISO/IEC 25000 estĂĄndar para la evaluaciĂłn de la calidad de productos de software (SQuaRE).
El mĂ©todo de inspecciĂłn de usabilidad propuesto (WUEP) se ha instanciado en dos procesos de desarrollo Web dirigido por modelos diferentes (OO-H y WebML) a fin de demostrar la factibilidad de nuestra propuesta. AdemĂĄs, WUEP fue validado empĂricamente mediante la realizaciĂłn de una familia de experimentos en OO-H y un experimento controlado en WebML. El objetivo de nuestros estudios empĂricos fue evaluar la efectividad, la eficiencia, facilidad de uso percibida y la satisfacciĂłn percibida de los participantes; cuando utilizaron WUEP en comparaciĂłn con un mĂ©todo de inspecciĂłn industrial ampliamente utilizado: La EvaluaciĂłn HeurĂstica (HE). El anĂĄlisis estadĂstico y meta-anĂĄlisis de los datos obtenidos por separado de cada experimento indicaron que WUEP es mĂĄs eficaz y eficiente que HE en la detecciĂłn de problemas de usabilidad. Los evaluadores tambiĂ©n percibieron mĂĄs satisfacciĂłn cuando se aplicaron WUEP, y lesFernĂĄndez MartĂnez, A. (2012). A Usability Inspection Method for Model-driven Web Development Processes [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat PolitĂšcnica de ValĂšncia. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/17845Palanci