Introduction.-Usability in the Developing World.-Issues in Adapting Usability Test Methodology.-Cultural Issues in Online Trust Related to Website Design.-International Ethnographic User Experience Research.-Brazil.-China.-Czech Republic.-India.-Israel.-Japan.-Malaysia.-Mexico.-New Zealand.-Philippines.-Poland.-Russia.-Singapore.-South Korea.-Thailand
Ian Douglas is an Associate Program Director at the Learning
Systems Institute at Florida State University and an Associate
Professor in the university's College of Communications and
Information. His research interests focus on improving human
performance, particularly through knowledge management and
user-centered design of technology. Dr. Douglas has a
multidisciplinary background, with an M.A. (hons) in Psychology, an
M.S. in Computing and Cognition and a Ph.D. in Computing. He
previously worked as a consultant in a flight simulator company and
as an educator in the U.K. and Singapore. He has been a visiting
professor in the Philippines and China.
At Florida State, Dr. Douglas has been the principal investigator
on a number of large research projects funded by the US army, State
of Florida and the U.S. Department of Education. His most recent
project investigates the role of web-enabled mobile technology in
enhancing school field trips to science museums and nature centers.
He has also completed several web-based databases with map-based
interfaces, including one that was the inspiration behind this
book.
Zhengjie Liu is the founder and director of Sino European Usability
Center (SEUC), professor at School of Information Science &
Technology of Dalian Maritime University, China. He is Adjunct
Chair for Developing Worlds at ACM SIGCHI, expert member of IFIP
TC.13 HCI Committee, co-founder and co-chair at ACM SIGCHI China.
His areas include usability, user-centered design and
human-computer interaction (HCI). He has been working in usability
and HCI since 1989. He founded SEUC in 2000 as a leading research
and educational center dedicated to usability/HCI in China. Since
then, he has led SEUC conducting many research projects sponsored
by leading players in industry including Fortune 500 multinationals
and funded by EU and Chinese government.
He is on the editorialboard of the Springer international journal Universal Access in Information Society. He also served as co-chair at international conferences including INTERACT, CSCW etc. He holds an B.E. and an M.E. Degree in Computer Science from Xian Jiaotong University, China.
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