Pleased to announce that the Oracle Usability Advisory Board has added a globalization workgroup for 2011. This will be headed up my myself.

The aims of this workgroup are:

• To understand how our customers use translated versions of applications
• To identify key international support, translation and localization-related usability issues in deployed applications
• To make recommendations to Oracle usability and development teams about meeting global customer usability requirements in current and future versions of our applications.

Issues include: How international users use applications when working, ethnography opportunities, key cultural impacts on usability; multilingual feature usage, localization of forms and reports, language quality, extensibility, translation of user assistance, user-generated and rich-media content like UPK, and international mobile application opportunities.

More details will be available on the usableapps.oracle.com website shortly.