Design issues in a semiotic description of user responses to three interfaces

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 175-184

  Liu, Kecheng ^a   Crum, Geoff ^a   Dines, Kristian ^a  

^a STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; SEMIOTICS; STANDARDS; USER INTERFACES;

INTERFACE DESIGN; SOFTWARE PACKAGE HYPERCARD; USER RESPONSE;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 0032064481     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014492998119544     Document Type: Article

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