See What You Need: Helping End-users to Build Abstractions

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 475-499

  Blackwell, Alan F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive and user interface design issues; Data abstraction; Liveness; Programming by demonstration languages; Usability studies; VPL II. A.10; VPL III. A.1; VPL VI. C.3; VPL VI. D.1; VPL VI. D.2

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012416233     PISSN: 1045926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jvlc.2001.0216     Document Type: Article

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