The effectiveness of different representations for managerial problem solving: Comparing tables and maps

Decision Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 391-420

  Smelcer, John B ^a   Carmel, Erran ^b  

^a Director of Information Systems   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographical Information System (GIS); Human Computer Interface (HCI); Knowledge states; Maps and tables; Problem solving; Visual heuristics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031519006     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1997.tb01316.x     Document Type: Article

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