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About this paper
Ravikiran Vatrapu, Manuel A. Perez-Quinones
A study empirically investigated how cultural congruence between interviewers and participants affects structured usability interviews. It demonstrated that participants provide significantly more usability problems, suggestions, negative comments, and culturally-related insights when interviewed by someone from their own culture, compared to an interviewer from a different culture.
Key insights
- Cultural congruence between interviewer and participant profoundly impacts the candor and depth of feedback obtained in structured usability interviews.
- Participants from a high power-distance culture are more willing to offer critical feedback and identify usability problems to an interviewer sharing their cultural background.
- Crucial culturally-specific insights and interpretations of design elements are more likely to be revealed when the interviewer is culturally aligned with the participant.
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