Specifying user knowledge for the design of interactive systems

Software Engineering Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 323-333

  Blandford, Ann ^a   Young, Richard M ^b  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FORMAL LANGUAGES; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

INSTRUCTION LANGUAGE; SEMIFORMAL DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030285587     PISSN: 02686961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/sej.1996.0043     Document Type: Article

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