Empirical evaluation of hypertextual information access from program text

Proceedings - 7th International Workshop on Program Comprehension, IWPC 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 162-169

  Koskinen, Jussi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS;

ACCESS STRUCTURE; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; HYPERSOFT; INFORMATION ACCESS; MAINTENANCE SUPPORTS; NONLINEAR BROWSING; SAMPLE INFORMATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0009086916     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WPC.1999.777755     Document Type: Conference Paper

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