Am 2000-06-13 um 09:28 h (GMT-0800) hat J. Schneider geschrieben:
> Pictograms are problematic because they are often culturally based.
...
> the icon looked like an analog clock, sort of. [...] my son
> didn't make the connection until I explained it to him.
What about the even more old-fashione
Am 2000-06-13 um 11:57:59 (GMT-0800) hat Alain geschrieben:
> the flash option -- which most will like to use, show... a flash
> pictogram (electric storm flash shape won't change overnight in nature,
> I guess)
This is another example of the pitfall I tried to warn of: it is not
enough that the
À 10:30 2000-06-13 -0800, Otto Stolz a écrit:
It does also require careful deliberation on
the designers part to avoid
all sorts of cultural bias. If this cannot be avoided, you will end
up
with different pictograms for the various cultures -- and you are
back
to square one, as you will have to pr
Otto Stolz wrote (about using a flash icon for the flashlight function on a
camera):
> I found two possible situations in which this would not work:
> - a particular culture may use another metaphor, or a term not based
> on any metaphor, for the notion you are trying to convey,
> - or the metap
At 11:34 AM 06/13/2000 -0800, Alain wrote:
>[Alain] In my example of this morning, it was not mainly because French
>was in 5th position that I was the most upset, it is because I was in a
>hurry -- that was last Tuesday -- and that I had to wait for the vocal
>explanations for many minutes wh
À 13:59 2000-06-14 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg a écrit:
At 11:34 AM 06/13/2000 -0800, Alain
wrote:
[Alain] In my example of this morning,
it was not mainly because French was in 5th position that I was the most
upset, it is because I was in a hurry -- that was last Tuesday -- and
that I had to wai
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