Software and culture: Beyond the internationalization of the interface

Journal of Global Information Management

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 86-101

  Kersten, Gregory E ^a   Kersten, Mik A ^b   Rakowski, Wojciech M ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Culture; Software; Software culturalization; Software internationalization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE CULTURALIZATION; SOFTWARE INTERNATIONALIZATION;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 0042976243     PISSN: 10627375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jgim.2002100105     Document Type: Article

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