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Designing interfaces for multilingual users: a pattern language

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Diego Moreira Da Rosa,

Maria Luisa Lamb Souto,

Milene Selbach SilveiraAuthors Info & Claims

EuroPLop '22: Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs

Article No.: 4, Pages 1 - 7

https://doi.org/10.1145/3551902.3551964

Published: 07 February 2023 Publication History

Abstract

Despite the existence of a large contingent of bilingual and multilingual individuals in the world, this characteristic of software users went unnoticed for decades. With the emergence of Web 2.0, users began to generate content and make it available on their favorite websites, yielding a series of intercultural communications with other users. Several companies began to adapt their user interfaces to this new reality, preparing their applications and websites for the ever increasing multilingual characteristics of their public. In this work, we seek to map, through the development of a pattern language, the interaction design strategies related to users’ multilingualism existing in current systems. An overview of the resulting pattern language is presented together with a few example patterns, while a website is made available with the complete language description.

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Designing interfaces for multilingual users: a pattern language
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods

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