Cultural and Requirement Aspects on International E-commerce sites

- This paper investigates issues on culture and websites design for e-commerce, and also relates them to advanced requirements engineering practices. E-commerce parishioners and users have different expects and preferences from a web site. Finding information on a web site is an important issue. We observe that cultural concerns may crosscut several base functionalities of a system, constraining and modifying them in different ways. This paper examines Australian, Singaporean, German and Brazilian sites and relates them to requirements of users from different countries by identifying the cultural differences that should be taken into account. Kyewords: culture, e-commerce and requirement engineering

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CSREAEEE
• Authors: Kyeong Kang, João Araújo
• Keywords: CSREAEEE 2006, CSREAEEE 2007, Paper Investigates Issues, Requirements Engineering Practices, Web Site