International User Interfaces Leading authorities from around the world discuss the latest topics in international user-interface design. With most major companies in the computer industry depending on exports for 50 percent or more of their sales, user-interface design teams face a major challenge in making their products both useful and accessible to the global marketp... more »lace. It is no longer enough to simply offer a product translated in ten to twenty different languages. Users also want a product that acknowledges their unique cultural characteristics and business practices. In International User Interfaces, Elisa del Galdo and Jakob Nielsen head a team of acknowledged international authorities who confront some of the problems currently facing international user-interface developers, including:
International Usability Engineering.
Developing a Cultural Model.
Arabization of Graphical User Interfaces.
Managing a Multiple-Language Document System.
An Intelligent Lexical Management System for Multilingual Machine Translation.
A Chinese Text Display Supported by an Algorithm for Chinese Segmentation.