TY - JOUR
T1 - Trends in usability research and activities in Japan
AU - Kurosu, Masaaki
AU - Kobayashi, Tadashi
AU - Yoshitake, Ryoji
AU - Takahashi, Hideaki
AU - Urokohara, Haruhiko
AU - Sato, Daisuke
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - This article presents an outline of information on the usability activities in Japan with a focus on the last 10 years. Although there were many activities in academia, substantial efforts were made in industry, and both activities coincided to form unique usability engineering in the country. Because of the language barrier that exists in many Japanese usability engineering professionals, just a few works have been presented at international conferences. This is the reason why the tried to summarize in English the usability engineering activity in Japan.
AB - This article presents an outline of information on the usability activities in Japan with a focus on the last 10 years. Although there were many activities in academia, substantial efforts were made in industry, and both activities coincided to form unique usability engineering in the country. Because of the language barrier that exists in many Japanese usability engineering professionals, just a few works have been presented at international conferences. This is the reason why the tried to summarize in English the usability engineering activity in Japan.
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U2 - 10.1207/s15327590ijhc1701_8
DO - 10.1207/s15327590ijhc1701_8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:2542633637
VL - 17
SP - 103
EP - 124
JO - International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
JF - International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
SN - 1044-7318
IS - 1
ER -