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    Cross-cultural web design guidelines

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    Authors
    Alexander, R.
    Murray, D.
    Thompson, Nik
    Date
    2017
    Type
    Conference Paper
    
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    Alexander, R. and Murray, D. and Thompson, N. 2017. Cross-cultural web design guidelines.
    Source Title
    Proceedings of the 14th Web for All Conference, W4A 2017
    DOI
    10.1145/3058555.3058574
    ISBN
    9781450349000
    School
    School of Information Systems
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/56875
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    © 2017 ACM. Adapting web pages to cultural preferences has been shown to improve communication effectiveness. However, the lack of a set of research-based web design guidelines or best practices renders the creation of culturally tailored versions of a website a time-consuming, costly task which is rarely undertaken by designers. This research aims to develop guidelines for cross-cultural web design to overcome these issues. The authors' prior work has provided empirical data showing significant cultural differences in the usage of design web attributes. These are used to determine a relationship between design attributes, cultural factors, and HCI factors. The result is a synthesis of culturally specific design at-tributes and published theories of culture to create a set of website design guidelines. The development process involved five steps: evaluation of the usage of design elements between cultures, identification of prominent design elements, organisation of cul-tural factors, organisation of HCI factors, and finally development the cross-cultural design guidelines. It is hoped that these evi-dence and research based guidelines will ultimately enhance web-site usability for users from different cultural backgrounds.

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