Heuristic Evaluations of Cultural Heritage Websites

Abstract

Heuristic evaluation, a systematic inspection, aims to find the usability problems in websites. Numerous sets of usability heuristics have been adopted for specific fields through the examination and the judgment of evaluators. Cultural heritage has drawn significant interest and needs thorough investigations in order to improve the interfaces of websites and help to promote cultural values of a country. An in-deep review of literature on user interface evaluations about cultural heritage is presented. We examine several aspects including cultural dimensions in interface design, cultural-based adaptive web design, and technologies for cultural heritage websites' interfaces. The findings are expected to be a foundation in designing archiving websites in the domain of cultural heritage.