Re: French-Translation Tech. Comm.

[Brad Mehlenbacher <brad_m -at- UNITY -dot- NCSU -dot- EDU>]

Allison-->

One of my Master's students has an intense interest in
internationalization and technical communication, particularly as it
applies to French, & I wondered if you might be familiar with
research/practice being carried out in this area over there? Any help
would be appreciated; Merci, Brad.

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> In article <9309291133 -dot- AA17347 -at- sappey -dot- grenoble -dot- hp -dot- com>, Popowicz Alison
> <popowicz -at- sappey -dot- grenoble -dot- hp -dot- com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello! I don't know if I've introduced myself (can't remember - I've
> > been 'lurking' for a while): my name's Alison, I work for Hewlett-Packard
> > in Grenoble, France.  My job responsibilities include both user
 documentation
> > and product usability... are any of you involved in usability work?
> > And does anyone know of a usability/human factors list?


> Allison, When I worked at HP in Sunnyvale (and wrote Vectra manuals) we had
> a usability/HF lab.  I know some of the work done there was transferred to
> other divisions, but there's got to be some historical info about what we
> did somewhere.


> debbien -at- llnl -dot- gov