System Designers' User Models: A Comparitive Study and Methodological Critique

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1983, Pages 987-997

  Dagwell, Ron ^a   Weber, Ron ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

behavioral problems; contingency theory; implementation; information systems; information systems design; organizational change

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS, DIGITAL;

EID: 0020844903     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/182.358465     Document Type: Article

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