Designing information systems for user abilities and tasks: An experimental study

Online and CDROM Review

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 139-153

  Allen, Bryce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; ONLINE SEARCHING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; USER INTERFACES;

COGNITIVE ABILITIES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032094838     PISSN: 13532642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/eb024663     Document Type: Article

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