Experiment proves Japanese prefer Japanese domains

[thegenius1]

Summary - a recent psychological experiment conducted with participants ranging from 20 year old students to 60 year olds tested the relative merits of Japanese language versus ASCII domains in terms of recognition, recall of, and typing-in of such domain names. The experiment concluded that in every case, Japanese domain names were superior to ASCII domain names. "Yup, for Japanese people, the Japanese language is just easier to understand than English and roman letters." The study did find one current barrier which was that most participants were completely unaware that Japanese domain names existed or were even possible.


"全般的に日本語ドメイン名は、テキスト・音声いずれの方法で提示した場合も、認知のしやすさや記憶のしやすさなどの点でローマ字や英語よりも優れていたという。ローマ字は文字を読み取るのが困難であり、英語は文字を書くところが困難だった。これに対して、日本語はいずれも優位性があった。また、単語の長さについて見ると、ローマ字と英語は長い単語になると成績が悪化したが、日本語は長い単語でも優位だったとしている。さらに、日本語の単語では文字数が少ないことから、携帯電話からの入力に日本語ドメイン名が向いているという。結果から明らかなように「言うまでもなく日本語が使えたほうがいい。日本語ドメイン名環境があると考えれば、間違いなく、日本人にとっては日本語のほうが英語やローマ字よりはわかりやすい」（野島教授）。 "



http://internet.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/event/2006/06/06/12217.html

 

[rhys]

Nice repost Genius! :hehe:

It's an experiment that one would think should be unnecessary and yet, there are many English speaking domainers who continue to insist that the Japanese IDN will fail because Japanese is too hard to type. Cracks me up every time I hear that.

 

[thegenius1]

Nice repost Genius! :hehe:

It's an experiment that one would think should be unnecessary and yet, there are many English speaking domainers who continue to insist that the Japanese IDN will fail because Japanese is too hard to type. Cracks me up every time I hear that.

Yes thanks to Rhys for the original translation on the article , And also at first i thought it was sad they thought this , then i laughed my a$$ off as i continued to Reg :hehe: