International users interface
Icon and symbol design issues for graphical user interfaces
International users interface
Cultures, literacy, and the web: dimensions of information "scent"
interactions - Winds of change
Exploring Small Screen Digital Library Access with the Greenstone Digital Library
ECDL '02 Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
A comparison of mobile money-transfer UIs for non-literate and semi-literate users
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Designing mobile interfaces for novice and low-literacy users
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Mobile interface design for low-literacy populations
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium
Beyond strict illiteracy: abstracted learning among low-literate users
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
Classic and Alternative Mobile Search: A Review and Agenda
International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction
Some evidence for the impact of limited education on hierarchical user interface navigation
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Following a social semiotic approach, this paper questions the Western cultural assumptions underpinning the web's evolving navigational conventions, and investigates to what extent a group of South African students command the currently dominant Western conventions. South African students (both novices and experienced web users) completed a series of visual exercises, where they interpreted a set of interface and conceptual conventions in common use on the web. Conceptual questions attempted to address to what extent students were familiar with and able to reproduce the conventional Western visual design resources for representing classificational taxonomies or 'tree structures' and various other visual devices for the implicit portrayal of hierarchical information structures (Kress and van Leeuwen 1996). Interface questions probed student recognition of common web icons. Some broadly cultural factors were found to explain at least some of the variation in the group. Finally, we consider the implications of our study for training, design, and the diverse range of South African representational resources.