Wikifying your interface: facilitating community-based interface translation

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. Author Keywords Internationalization, customization, personalization, Wikis, mash-ups, community based technology. ACM Classification Keywords H5 [Information interfaces and presentation]; User

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ACMDIS
• Authors: M. Cameron Jones, Dinesh Rathi, Michael B. Twidale
• Keywords: ACMDIS 2006, English Language Interfaces, Interactive Systems, Ongoing Incremental Contributions, Particular User Communities