Authors:
Ben Shneiderman
How do you explain a trashcan to a culture that doesn't have one? How do you describe a "stop loss limit order" to retirees managing their funds? Can you design a text-only interface that conveys the contents and experience of an animated Flash presentation? These puzzles emerged during the first ACM Conference on Universal Usability (CUU; www.acm.org/sigchi/cuu/), held November 1517, 2000, in Arlington, Va. The Association for Computing Machinery has taken a visionary commitment on universal usability through its Code of Ethics: "In a fair society, all individuals would have equal opportunity to participate in, or benefit from, the…
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