An application of multidimensional scaling in product semantics

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

Volumn 18, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 193-204

  Lin, Rungtai ^a   Lin, C Y ^b   Wong, Joan ^b  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Human factors; Interface; Multidimensional scaling; Product design; Product semantics

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; CONSUMER PRODUCTS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PRODUCT DESIGN;

CONSUMER PRODUCT DESIGN; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; PRODUCT SEMANTICS;

ERGONOMICS;

ARTICLE; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0030248328     PISSN: 01698141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-8141(95)00083-6     Document Type: Article

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