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Culture, Trust and Methods Dianne Cyr, Simon Fraser University CSCW Workshop, Banff November 4 th, 2006
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Key Topics Does trust differ across cultures? Does localization of websites matter? What are methods for unraveling trust?
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Culture and Website Trust Cheskin (2000) examined online consumer behavior for U.S., Brazilian, and Latin American consumers; Latin Americans and Brazilians (high uncertainty avoidance cultures) indicated presence of credit card symbols on websites more important than for Americans Simon (2001) found differences in trust for websites between Asians, Europeans, and North Americans Cyr et al. (2004, 2005, 2006) examined trust and website design across cultures using different methodologies
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Attitudes related to Trust
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Between Country Differences Mean Values
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Comparisons for Trust T-tests (between countries)
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Participant Survey Note: Items answered by each participant for both the local and foreign Samsung site. Loy2: I would consider purchasing from this website in the future. Loy1: I would visit this website again. LOYALTY Sat3: Using this site/service is satisfactory overall. Sat2: This website satisfies my particular needs well. Sat1: The website completely fulfills my needs and expectations. SATISFACTION Trust3: I can trust the information presented on the website. Trust2: The website is credible to me. Trust1: I can trust the online vendor. TRUST Design9: Site product availability and product variety are well explained. Design8: All product options, product attributes and product information are well designed and presented. Design7: The organization, sequencing and overall arrangements of the site are understandable and easy to use. Design6: The website can be easily navigated. Design5: The screen design on the website (i.e. colors, boxes, menus, navigation tools etc.) is harmonious and well presented. Design4: The product information provided on the website is presented consistently and logically. Design3: The website looks professionally designed and well presented. Design2: I can easily recognize and find where product information is located. Design1: The user menus are clearly categorized and are well laid out on the screen. WEBSITE DESIGN
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PLS Graph – Local Website
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Mean values for website satisfaction, trust, and e-loyalty (India) 3.502.72**E-loyalty 3.853.43**Trust 3.522.94**Satisfaction LOCAL MEANFOREIGN MEANCONSTRUCT * p<.05 ** p<.001
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Results: Mean Values of Affective Website Characteristics (India) 2.132.46***Comfortable-Uncomfortable 3.443.07***Boring-Stimulating # 3.953.67***Unreliable-Reliable # 2.272.71***Interesting-Boring 2.022.17*Accurate-Inaccurate 2.562.72**Warm-Cold 3.913.68***Meaningless-Meaningful # 2.732.99***Sensitive-Insensitive 2.242.55***Friendly-Unfriendly 2.092.36***Logical-Illogical 2.993.35***Emotional-Unemotional 3.813.73Ugly-Pretty # 2.101.98Fast-Slow 1.862.08**Professional-Amateur 2.202.61***Successful-Unsuccessful FOREIGN MEAN LOCAL MEANWEBSITE CHARACTERISTICS * p<.10 ** p<.05 *** p<.001 # indicates items that are reversed
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Human Images and Trust
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Survey Results Conditions: human images with facial features, human images but no facial features, no human images No significant differences for trust between 3 image conditions, but differences for image appeal and social presence (condition with faces perceived most positively)
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Eye-tracking System
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Sample Eye-tracking Data
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Average # Fixations on Images
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Viewing Time Across Cultures
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Interview Analysis (Atlas.ti) Interview data coded using 2 methods: in vivo (using the participants exact words as the basis for a code) open coding (using arbitrary labels to code the data) Categories then developed to identify relationships between codes, followed by the creation of more theoretical entities or concepts Concepts emerged: Aesthetics, Symbolism, Affective Property, Functional Property with between country differences (Table 3) Human image condition - Canadians focused on aesthetics; Germans on functional properties and symbolism (community aspects); and Japanese on affective and symbolism
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