Skills, Rules, and Knowledge; Signals, Signs, and Symbols, and Other Distinctions in Human Performance Models

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn SMC-13, Issue 3, 1983, Pages 257-266

  Rasmussen, Jens ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND CYBERNETICS - MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 0020749236     PISSN: 00189472     EISSN: 21682909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMC.1983.6313160     Document Type: Article

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