Relationship Model in Cultural Usability Testing

  • Qingxin Shi
  • Torkil Clemmensen
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 4559)

Abstract

Culture plays an important role in the global market today. It not only affects products, but also impacts on usability evaluation methods. In this paper we first introduce culture theories and two kinds of relationships in thinking aloud usability testing and then review previous research. Based on the discussion, we extract the potential factors which may influence cross-culture usability testing and then propose a relationship model. Finally, we discuss how the two thinking aloud approaches may be used in cross-culture usability testing.

Keywords

Usability test culture thinking aloud theory localization 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Qingxin Shi
    • 1
  • Torkil Clemmensen
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of Informatics, Copenhagen Business SchoolDenmark

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