Comparative Study on Cultural Diversity in Preference of Information Display

A key problem of identifying what cultural diversitywill
influence user actions is presented in this paper. Through
comparative cultural diversity analysis,the difference of
preference in perceptions of information display scheme
between two cultural groups, where is Japanese and Indonesian are the subjects of the comparison is discussed.
Even though the social background and historical context
of the societies in question are not so different and
share some similarities, further experiments and analysis on
preference, performance and another usability elements revealed some differences between them. Copyright ©2001 IFAC Keywords: inter-culture comparison, cultural diversity, information provision, integrated dis-play, decision-support system