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Designing User Interfaces for International Use

Book edited by Jakob Nielsen, published by Elsevier Science Publishers, 1990.
ISBN 0-444-88428-9.

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Table of Contents

Preface


Jakob Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark

Contributors

1. Internationalization and Translation: Some Guidelines for the Design of Human-Computer Interfaces


Elisa del Galdo, Digital Equipment Corporation

2. Transnational Symbols: The Rule of Pictograms and Models in the Learning Process


Jakob Ossner, Pedagogical Institute of Heidelberg

3. Usability Testing of International Interfaces


Jakob Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark

4. A European Evaluation of Three Document Formats for Hardware Installation Guides


Elisa del Galdo, Digital Equipment Corporation

5. Two Faces of America: Polyglot and Tongue-Tied


Robert C. Sprung, Harvard Translations

6. ARRIS: Redesigning a User Interface for International Use


Matthew C. Peterson, Sigma Design, Inc.

7. Hypertext -- Towards the Single Intellectual Market


Patricia Baird, University of Strathclyde

8. Creating International Applications: A Hands-On Approach using the Hewlett-Packard NLS Package


Dave Taylor, Intuitive Systems

9. International User Interface for INFOFLEX


Jakob Peter Nielsen, Data Reforming

10. User Interfaces for Asia


Piyawadee Sukaviriya and Lucy Moran, The George Washington University

11. International User Interfaces


Rosalie A. Zobel-Pocock, Commission of the European Communities

Index

Author affiliations given as of the date the chapters were written.