'Visual literacy' as challenge to the internationalisation of interfaces: A study of South African student web users

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 530-531

  Walton, Marion ^a   Vukovic, Vera ^a   Marsden, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cross cultural design; Social semiotics; Visual literacy; Web usability

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); HEURISTIC METHODS; SEMIOTICS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WORLD WIDE WEB; DESIGN; HUMAN ENGINEERING; WEBSITES;

DIAGRAMS; CONCEPTUAL QUESTIONS; CULTURAL FACTORS; DIVERSE RANGE; HIERARCHICAL INFORMATION; INTERNATIONALISATION; SEMIOTIC APPROACHES; STUDENT RECOGNITION; TREE STRUCTURES; VISUAL DESIGN; VISUAL DEVICES; VISUAL LITERACY; WEB USABILITY; WEB USERS;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; STUDENTS;

EID: 0038726337     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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