Cultural Experience Tourist Motives Dimensionality: A Cross-Cultural Study

Motives for risk-taking in adolescence: a cross-cultural study.

Most research on adolescent risk-taking has been conducted in Western societies, but it is as yet unknown whether motives to engage in risk behaviours show cultural variety. This study sets out to investigate differences in perceived motives to engage in perceived risks in Turkish and Welsh samples of young people (N=922) between 14 and 20 years of age. For this, a measurement scale to assess m...

Cross-Platform Cross-Cultural User Experience

Many interactive systems can be accessed across a range of different platforms, enabling crossplatform services and allowing users to migrate their tasks from one platform to another. The aim of this study is to investigate the culture-related experiential side of using multiple interactive systems across platforms by studying users from different cultural backgrounds. In this paper, we present...

Accessing Cultural Tourist Information Via a Context-Sensitive Tourist Guide

Recent developments in both wireless communications and personal navigation technologies have made the concept of location-aware services both feasible and economical. Indeed, it is widely projected that the market for such services will increase substantially in the coming years. Obviously this market will provide significant opportunities and challenges for the tourism sector. In this article...

Cross-cultural Research Issues in Developing International Tourist Markets for Cultural Events

Cultural dimensions for user experience: cross-country and cross-product analysis of users' cultural characteristics

The quality of user experience is intricately related to the users’ cultural characteristics. However, not many studies have dealt with important cultural characteristics which are closely related to user experience. The main goals of this study are to identify important cultural dimensions that are closely related to the user experience of consumer electronic products and to measure them in di...