International User Interfaces [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

With the world continuing to shrink into a "global village," software companies are working to make programs that transcend language and cultural borders. One such way is through international user interfaces where the software is prepared so that it can be easily localized in each country. This book focuses on user interfaces, exploring what they can do, and what they need to do to become commercially viable.

Leading authorities from around the world discuss the latest topics in international user--interface design. With most major companies in the computer industry depending on exports for 50 percent or more of their sales, user--interface design teams face a major challenge in making their products both useful and accessible to the global marketplace. It is no longer enough to simply offer a product translated in ten to twenty different languages. Users also want a product that acknowledges their unique cultural characteristics and business practices. In International User Interfaces, Elisa del Galdo and Jakob Nielsen head a team of acknowledged international authorities who confront some of the problems currently facing international user--interface developers, including: * International Usability Engineering. * Developing a Cultural Model. * Arabization of Graphical User Interfaces. * Managing a Multiple--Language Document System. * An Intelligent Lexical Management System for Multilingual Machine Translation. * A Chinese Text Display Supported by an Algorithm for Chinese Segmentation. * Breaking the Language Barrier with Graphics. * Cultural Issues That Can Affect Training

Leading authorities from around the world discuss the latest topics in international user-interface design.

With most major companies in the computer industry depending on exports for 50 percent or more of their sales, user-interface design teams face a major challenge in making their products both useful and accessible to the global marketplace. It is no longer enough to simply offer a product translated in ten to twenty different languages. Users also want a product that acknowledges their unique cultural characteristics and business practices.

In International User Interfaces, Elisa del Galdo and Jakob Nielsen head a team of acknowledged international authorities who confront some of the problems currently facing international user-interface developers, including:

• International Usability Engineering.
• Developing a Cultural Model.
• Arabization of Graphical User Interfaces.
• Managing a Multiple-Language Document System.
• An Intelligent Lexical Management System for Multilingual Machine Translation.
• A Chinese Text Display Supported by an Algorithm for Chinese Segmentation.
• Breaking the Language Barrier with Graphics.
• Cultural Issues That Can Affect Training

Elisa M. del Galdo is currently an independent human factors consultant. She was previously a member of Digital Equipment Corporation's European Design Group where she was responsible for the design and evaluation of user interfaces for ten European countries. Jakob Nielsen is a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he is working in the area of object-oriented user interfaces. He led the user-interface team that created Sun's WWW pages for both internal and external access. He is the author of numerous books in the field and coeditor of the definitive work, Usability Inspection Methods.