Design of icons for use by Chinese in mainland China

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 417-430

  Choong, Yee Yin ^a   Salvendy, Gavriel ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese users; GUI; HCI; Icon design; Internationalization

Indexed keywords

ABILITY TESTING; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER KEYBOARDS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ALPHANUMERIC ELEMENTS; ICON DESIGN; PICTORIAL ELEMENTS;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

EID: 0032002360     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0953-5438(97)00026-X     Document Type: Article

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