Hierarchical menu design: Breadth, depth, and task complexity

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 84, Issue 3 PART 2, 1996, Pages 1187-1201

  Jacko, Julie A ^a   Salvendy, Gavriel ^b  

^a The College of New Jersey   (United States)

^b SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

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EID: 0000640877     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1996.82.3c.1187     Document Type: Article

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