Towards Effective Usability Evaluation in Asia: Cross-Cultural Differences

dy of cultural efsects on the reliability of objective and ztive usabili@ evaluation of software user interfaces is ted in this paper. Subjects comprised actual users Ted in a real system development proj’ect. The results aed indicated that cultural effects exist and exerted a g influence on the outcome of user interface ation. Implications of the findings for practitioners iscussed in the paper. In particular, to account for ?a1 effects the need to modify ‘western’ usability ation methods for application in the Far East, is ghted Initial recommendations for effective usability dion in the Far East are proposed, words: usability evaluation, cross-cultural issues.