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Title:
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ARABIC USABILITY GUIDELINES |
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Author(s):
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Perihan Elbaz |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-52-6 |
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Editors:
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Katherine Blashki |
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Year:
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2011 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Culture, Usability, User-Centered Design, and Arabic Web Pages Guidelines |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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374 |
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Last Page:
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378 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Usable interfaces are a result of focus on understanding users culture and subcultures. The aim of this paper is to set the scene for research into extract Arabic usability guidelines. This paper proposes extracting of the Arabic usability guide-lines for Arab culture and subcultures based on the issues gleaned from user acceptance test (UAT) reports. After apply-ing the proposed guidelines on Web application projects that serve different sectors. The application of the guidelines led to a decrease of UAT bugs by 95.25%, and an increase of customer confidence and satisfaction. Systems usability also increased as evidenced by the results obtained from usability tests, and user interface analyses (Elbaz, 2007, Elbaz, 2010). |
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