Students' perceptions and designs of simple control systems

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 363-388

  Mioduser, David ^b   Venezky, Richard L ^c   Gong, Brian ^a  

^a Learning Result Services   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COGNITIVE MODELS; OPENING CLOSING SYSTEMS; SIMPLE CONTROL SYSTEMS DESIGNS; STUDENTS PERCEPTIONS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 0030243052     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0747-5632(96)00014-3     Document Type: Article

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