Designing usable interfaces with cultural dimensions

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3585 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 713-726

  Ford, Gabrielle ^a   Kotzé, Paula ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DATA MINING; DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION THEORY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL ASPECTS; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

CULTURAL DIMENSIONS; CULTURAL PROFILE; INTERFACE DESIGN; USABLE INTERFACES;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 33645994504     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11555261_57     Document Type: Conference Paper

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