CHINESE POPULATION STEREOTYPES FOR CONTROLS TO ADJUST CURSORS AND LINEAR SCALES

Two studies of control-display stereotypes for mainland and Hong Kong Chinese are presented. For rotary controls, strong stereotypes (e.g. 0 .74, p < 0.001) were found when Warrick's and scale-side principles su pported each other. When the principles clashed, stereotypes were weak ened (e. g. 0. 5 1, p > 0. 05), no single principle dominated but ther e was a clockwise-for-anything tendency. For push-pull and lever contr ols the Chinese expected some display movements in the opposite sense to those expected by westerners and showed some up/down expectations n ot found for western subjects. There was a good linear relationship (r = -0.87, p < 0.0005) between response time and strength of stereotype .