02294nas a2200205   4500008004100000245012200041210006900163260000900232300001400241490000600255520152200261653003101783653002901814653002601843653003701869100002901906700002101935700001501956856011701971       2009                        eng d00aWeb architectural-inducing model (WA-IM) for information architecture in cultural context: An empirical investigation0 aWeb architecturalinducing model WAIM for information architectur  c2009  a297 - 3040 v73 aWebsite Information Architecture (IA) is primarily treated as a new discipline that is concerned with design principles and architecture of information in digital landscape. Proliferation of revolutionary models for interdisciplinary applications of IA, however lack theoretical perspectives, empirical evidence and cultural context. Here, we proposed a new model called Web Architectural-Inducing Model (WA-IM). The model was developed based from existing literature and available architectural proposition from prior work. We tested the model suggesting that website IA being conceptualized as multidimensional constructs by exploring the applicability of WA-IM to web localization process from a socio-cognitive cultural perspective. The research methodology involves a web-based survey on Muslim online user as the cultural case study where 427 usable international responses were accumulated. The construct validation of the multifactor structure of website IA was assessed via confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) by using structural equation modeling. AMOS 7.0 was used to evaluate the five factor hypothesis goodness fit model. The result revealed that website IA is indeed a multidimensional construct composed of five factors: content-information, content-trust, navigation-traits, navigation-wayfindings and context. We conclude our study by providing empirical evidence for WA-IM in a form of goodness-fit-structure as part of the localization process towards the creation of cultural information structure.10aHuman computer interaction10aInformation architecture10aInformation structure10aWebsite information architecture1 aRahim, W.M.I., Wan Abdul1 aLaila, M.N., Nor1 aShafie, M.  uhttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77953257765&partnerID=40&md5=744aea135f4ac60f3dfdcc5443c61f90