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From: andrew@berlioz (Lord Snooty @ The Giant Poisoned Electric Head )
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Cross-linguistic issues in the design of Icons
Summary: universal icons
Keywords: interfaces, icons, cross-linguistic issues, Spanish
Message-ID: <654@berlioz.nsc.com>
Date: 19 Aug 89 12:25:12 GMT
References: <9268@cs.Buffalo.EDU> <1985@softway.oz>
Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara
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In article <1985@softway.oz>, gary@softway.oz (Friend of Elvenkind) writes:
> If you are interested in creating universal icons then you are going to have 
> to design them with aliens from another planet in mind as your readers.  I
> have a feeling that for every icon useful to your own culture there will exist
> an alternate culture which would not understand it.  Can anyone suggest a
> universal icon?

I'm not sure anybody has yet been tasked with writing software with the
alien market in mind (-:), but since I'm a resident alien in the US, I
probably partially qualify..

.  ..  ...	; digital maths package

that's all i have. nanu nanu
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