  As the uni-cultural studies of website usability have matured, the paucity of
cross-cultural studies of usability become increasingly apparent. Moving toward
these cross-cultural studies will require the development of a new tool to
assess website usability in the context of cultural dimensions. This paper
introduces the preliminary results from the first phase of this project and
then presents the proposed method for the research in progress that
specifically is directed to the development and quantitative evaluation of a
measurement scale of a culture sensitive measurement of website usability. The
recognition of the need to develop this scale resulted from the identification
of culture-related shortcomings of previous measurement tools that have been
used widely within the Management of Information Systems (MIS) literature.
