Testing of a novel web browser interface for the Chinese market
Testing of a novel web browser interface for the Chinese market
This paper compares the perspicacity, appropriateness and preference of web browser icons from leading software providers with those of a culture-specific design. This online study was conducted in Taiwan and involved 103 participants, who were given three sets of web browser icons to review, namely Microsoft Internet Explorer, Macintosh Safari, and culturally specific icons created using the Culture-Centred Design methodology. The findings of the study show that all three sets have generally high recognition rates, but that some icon functions (e.g. Go/Visit and Favourite) in all three sets have poor recognition rates and are considered inappropriate
web browser icons, icons, perspicacity, chinese, culturalisation, user interface design
413-418
Shen, Siu-Tsen
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Prior, Stephen D.
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Chen, Kuen-Meau
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Shen, Siu-Tsen
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Prior, Stephen D.
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Chen, Kuen-Meau
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Shen, Siu-Tsen, Prior, Stephen D. and Chen, Kuen-Meau
(2009)
Testing of a novel web browser interface for the Chinese market.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5623, .
(doi:10.1007/978-3-642-02767-3_46).
Abstract
This paper compares the perspicacity, appropriateness and preference of web browser icons from leading software providers with those of a culture-specific design. This online study was conducted in Taiwan and involved 103 participants, who were given three sets of web browser icons to review, namely Microsoft Internet Explorer, Macintosh Safari, and culturally specific icons created using the Culture-Centred Design methodology. The findings of the study show that all three sets have generally high recognition rates, but that some icon functions (e.g. Go/Visit and Favourite) in all three sets have poor recognition rates and are considered inappropriate
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Published date: 2009
Keywords:
web browser icons, icons, perspicacity, chinese, culturalisation, user interface design
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Aeronautics, Astronautics & Comp. Eng
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Local EPrints ID: 343555
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/343555
ISSN: 0302-9743
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Siu-Tsen Shen
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Kuen-Meau Chen
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