Delivering cognitive psychology to HCI: The problems of common language and of knowledge transfer

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 89-111

  Green, T R G ^a   Davies, S P ^c   Gilmore, D J ^b  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITIVISM; COMMON LANGUAGE; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 0030103558     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0953-5438(95)01020-3     Document Type: Article

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