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Cultural differences on seeking information: an eye tracking study
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013)
  • Mari-Carmen Marcos, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  • Ruth Garcia-Gavilanes, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  • Emad Bataineh, Zayed University
  • Lara Pasarin, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2013
Abstract

The main goal of this research is to investigate how people with different cultural background differ in their interaction style and visual behavior on search engine results pages (SERP), more specifically between groups from the Middle Eastern region vs. Western Europe. We conducted a controlled eye-tracking experiment to explore and evaluate the visual behavior of Arabs and Spaniard users when scanning through the first page of the search results in Google. Big differences can be observed in the 4 aspects studied: U.A.E. participants stayed on the SERPs for longer, they read more results and they read each snippet in a more complete way than Spaniards. In Spain, people tended to scan the SERP, reading less text on each snippet, and choose a result among the first top ranked ones without hardly seeing those in bottom positions.

Disciplines
Keywords
  • Search engines,
  • Cultural differences,
  • Eye tracking,
  • Visual behavior,
  • User experience
Indexed in Scopus
No
Open Access
Yes
Open Access Type
Green: A manuscript of this publication is openly available in a repository
https://hdl.handle.net/10230/20943
Citation Information
Mari-Carmen Marcos, Ruth Garcia-Gavilanes, Emad Bataineh and Lara Pasarin. "Cultural differences on seeking information: an eye tracking study" ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013) (2013)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/emad-bataineh/26/