Wikifying your interface: facilitating community-based interface translation

  • Authors:
  • M. Cameron Jones;Dinesh Rathi;Michael B. Twidale

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL

  • Venue:
  • DIS '06 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Designing Interactive systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We explore the application of a wiki-based technology and style of interaction to enabling the incremental translation of a collaborative application into a number of different languages, including variant English language interfaces better suited to the needs of particular user communities. The development work allows us to explore in more detail the design space of functionality and interfaces relating to tailoring, customization, personalization and localization, and the challenges of designing to support ongoing incremental contributions by members of different use communities.