Linguistic and Cultural Differences in Information Categorization and their Impact on Website Use
The Internet is increasingly used as a medium for providing medical information. Nevertheless, whether the World Wide Web is favoured over other information sources depends to a large extent on how easily the sought information can be found. Therefore, this paper investigates the impact of cult...
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| author | Kralisch, Anett Wee, Alvin Yeo |
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| description | The Internet is increasingly used as a medium for
providing medical information. Nevertheless, whether
the World Wide Web is favoured over other
information sources depends to a large extent on how
easily the sought information can be found. Therefore,
this paper investigates the impact of culture, language
and medical knowledge on users’ preferences of
information categorization and on the evaluation and
use of search cues and search options. Results from a
laboratory experiment with 141 Malaysian, British,
Russian, and German test subjects revealed significant
differences but also commonalities between these
groups. As a consequence of their limited medical
knowledge, all groups exhibited a preference for visual
cues over verbal cues. Outcomes suggest furthermore
that culture mainly influences the users’ preferences in
information categorization as well as their attitudes
and using behaviour, whereas language predominantly
affects the users’ beliefs about ease of use and
usefulness. |
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| spelling | unimas-141642022-01-05T06:13:17Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/14164/ Linguistic and Cultural Differences in Information Categorization and their Impact on Website Use Kralisch, Anett Wee, Alvin Yeo T Technology (General) The Internet is increasingly used as a medium for providing medical information. Nevertheless, whether the World Wide Web is favoured over other information sources depends to a large extent on how easily the sought information can be found. Therefore, this paper investigates the impact of culture, language and medical knowledge on users’ preferences of information categorization and on the evaluation and use of search cues and search options. Results from a laboratory experiment with 141 Malaysian, British, Russian, and German test subjects revealed significant differences but also commonalities between these groups. As a consequence of their limited medical knowledge, all groups exhibited a preference for visual cues over verbal cues. Outcomes suggest furthermore that culture mainly influences the users’ preferences in information categorization as well as their attitudes and using behaviour, whereas language predominantly affects the users’ beliefs about ease of use and usefulness. 2006 Proceeding NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/14164/1/Linguistic%20and%20Cultural.pdf Kralisch, Anett and Wee, Alvin Yeo (2006) Linguistic and Cultural Differences in Information Categorization and their Impact on Website Use. In: Proceedings of the 39th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2006.254 |
| spellingShingle | T Technology (General) Kralisch, Anett Wee, Alvin Yeo Linguistic and Cultural Differences in Information Categorization and their Impact on Website Use |
| title | Linguistic and Cultural Differences in Information Categorization and their Impact on Website Use |
| title_full | Linguistic and Cultural Differences in Information Categorization and their Impact on Website Use |
| title_fullStr | Linguistic and Cultural Differences in Information Categorization and their Impact on Website Use |
| title_full_unstemmed | Linguistic and Cultural Differences in Information Categorization and their Impact on Website Use |
| title_short | Linguistic and Cultural Differences in Information Categorization and their Impact on Website Use |
| title_sort | linguistic and cultural differences in information categorization and their impact on website use |
| topic | T Technology (General) |
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