TY - GEN
T1 - An extended study of search user interface design focused on Hofstede’s cultural dimensions
AU - Chessum, Karen
AU - Liu, Haiming
AU - Frommholz, Ingo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2023/8/24
Y1 - 2023/8/24
N2 - Geert Hofstede’s classic cultural model has been studied and applied to website design for a number of years. In this paper we examine if Geert Hof-stede’s six cultural dimensions can also be applied to search user interface de-sign. Two user studies have been conducted to evaluate the culturally designed search user interfaces, and the findings are reported in this paper. Our first study comprised of 148 participants from different cultural backgrounds. The second study was smaller with 25 participants, also from different cultural back-grounds. The results from these studies have been analyzed to ascertain if Hof-stede’s cultural dimensions are suitable for understanding users’ preferences for search user interface design. Whilst the key findings from these studies suggest Hofstede cross-cultural dimensions can be used to model users’ preferences on search interface design, further work is still needed for particular cultural di-mensions to reinforce the conclusions.
AB - Geert Hofstede’s classic cultural model has been studied and applied to website design for a number of years. In this paper we examine if Geert Hof-stede’s six cultural dimensions can also be applied to search user interface de-sign. Two user studies have been conducted to evaluate the culturally designed search user interfaces, and the findings are reported in this paper. Our first study comprised of 148 participants from different cultural backgrounds. The second study was smaller with 25 participants, also from different cultural back-grounds. The results from these studies have been analyzed to ascertain if Hof-stede’s cultural dimensions are suitable for understanding users’ preferences for search user interface design. Whilst the key findings from these studies suggest Hofstede cross-cultural dimensions can be used to model users’ preferences on search interface design, further work is still needed for particular cultural di-mensions to reinforce the conclusions.
KW - Cross-Cultural Theory
KW - Hofstede
KW - Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions
KW - Human-Computer Information Retrieval
KW - human-computer interaction
KW - website design
KW - Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
KW - Hofstede’s cultural dimensions
KW - Human-Computer Information Retrieval (HCIR)
KW - Cross-cultural information retrieval
KW - Cross-cultural theory
KW - Website design
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85172112631
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-41962-1_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-41962-1_7
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783031419614
VL - 1882
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 130
EP - 152
BT - Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - 5th International Conference, CHIRA 2021, and 6th International Conference, CHIRA 2022, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Holzinger, Andreas
A2 - da Silva, Hugo Plácido
A2 - Vanderdonckt, Jean
A2 - Constantine, Larry
PB - Springer
CY - Switzerland
T2 - Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications 6th International Conference, CHIRA 2022
Y2 - 27 October 2022 through 28 October 2022
ER -