ShowMeHow: Translating user interface instructions between similar applications

UIST'11 - Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 127-134

  Ramesh, Vidya ^a   Hsu, Charlie ^a   Agrawala, Maneesh ^a   Hartmann, Björn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Instructions; Mapping; Translation; Tutorials

Indexed keywords

AUTHORING TOOL; DIRECT MANIPULATION; END USERS; INSTRUCTIONS; INTERACTION TECHNIQUES; INTERFACE LANGUAGES; TEXT SEARCH; TRANSLATION MAPS; TUTORIALS;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 80755169520     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2047196.2047212     Document Type: Conference Paper

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