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List of Acronyms

Updated: 03/23/2007

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Here, you find what is behind some often used acronyms in the user interface and graphic design field. We also added some SAP-related acronyms, including SAP.

Note that this list is not a glossary. We do not explain what is behind an acronym. Please, consult the glossaries in the Resources section for this purpose.

 

ACM

Association for Computing Machinery (www.acm.org)

ASUG

Americas' SAP Users' Group (www.asug.com)

CHI

Computer-human interaction; also name of an annual conference on usability (or human-computer interaction) held by the ACM SIGCHI

CRM

Customer relationship management

DIN

Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. (German institute for standardization) (www2.din.de)

DSAG

Deutschsprachige SAP Anwendergruppe (German-speaking SAP user group) (www.dsag.de)

EP

Enterprise portal

ERP

Enterprise resource planning

HCI

Human-computer interaction (see also CHI)

HCM

Human capital management

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language

ISO

International Organization for Standardization (www.iso.ch/iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage)

R/3

Name of SAP's ERP software, no longer used

SAP

Stands for Systems, Applications, Products (German: Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte) – name of the company that offers this Website (www.sap.com)

SIGCHI (ACM SIGCHI)

Special Interest Group of the ACM for computer-human interaction (www.sigchi.org)

UI

User interface

UID

User interface designer

W3C

World Wide Web Consortium (www.w3c.org)

WWW

World wide web

XHTML

Extended HTML; HTML standard based on XML

XML

Extended Markup Language

 

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