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Volume 4 , Issue 4 (July/Aug. 1997) table of contents

Pages: 19 - 24

Year of Publication: 1997

ISSN:1072-5520

Authors

Deborah Mrazek	Hewlett-Packard
Cynthia Baldaccini	Hewlett-Packard

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	1	Elisa M. del Galdo, Culture and design, International users interface, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1996
	2	Fernandes, T. Global Interface Design. AP Professional, Boston, Mass., 1995.
	3	Karen Holtzblatt , Hugh Beyer, Contextual design: principles and practice, Field methods casebook for software design, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1996
	4	Masao Ito , Kumiyo Nakakoji, Impact of culture on user interface design, International users interface, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1996
	5	Nadine Kano, Developing international software for Windows 95 and Windows NT, Microsoft Press, Redmond, WA, 1995
	6	McCormick, E. Human Factors in Engineering and Design. McGraw-Hill Books, New York, N.Y., 1976.
	7	Deborah Mrazek , Susan Dray, A day in the life: studying context across cultures, International users interface, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1996
	8	Neilsen, J. Usability Engineering. AP Professional, Boston, Mass., 1996.
	9	Dennis Wixon , Judith Ramey, Field methods casebook for software design, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1996
	10	IT International, Volume 4, 1996.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.1 MODELS AND PRINCIPLES
H.1.2 User/Machine Systems
Subjects: Human factors

Additional Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
H.5.3 Group and Organization Interfaces
Subjects: Theory and models

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors

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"Raphael M. Malyankar : Reviewer"

Mrazek and Baldaccini describe a design bias problem in interface design and usability engineering. They argue that some differences in user type or user population segmentation are wrongly attributed to cultural causes. They divide difference more...

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Deborah Mrazek: colleagues

Cynthia Baldaccini: colleagues

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