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Second-Language Help for Windows Applications

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People and Computers XI

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This paper describes an approach to the second-language problem for user-support in the context of existing MS-Windows applications. We outline a methodology for deriving foci for support, and present guidelines for the addition of second-language enhancements. Finally, we detail our procedure for implementing such help facilities with examples of enhanced Chinese and Greek second-language support.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G11 XH, UK

    George R. S. Weir

  2. Department of Informatics, University of Athens, Athens, 157 71, Greece

    Giorgos Lepouras

  3. Business Administration Department, University of the Aegean, Chios, 821 00, Greece

    Ulysses Sakellaridis

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  1. University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT, London, UK

    Martina Angela Sasse MSc  & Russel L. Winder BSc, PhD  & 

  2. Technology and Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Queens Gate, SW7 2BZ, London, UK

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Weir, G.R.S., Lepouras, G., Sakellaridis, U. (1996). Second-Language Help for Windows Applications. In: Sasse, M.A., Cunningham, R.J., Winder, R.L. (eds) People and Computers XI. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3588-3_9

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