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Researchers have identified many ways that culture affects usability methods – interviews, moderated tests, think-aloud protocols, and card sorts. This paper reviews some of that literature and discusses a project investigating the effect of culture on usability surveys.
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Gould, E.W. (2009). Intercultural Usability Surveys: Do People Always Tell “The Truth”?. In: Aykin, N. (eds) Internationalization, Design and Global Development. IDGD 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5623. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02767-3_28
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