Comparison of visual and textual languages via task modeling

International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 89-115

  Williams, Marian G ^a   Buehler, J Nicholas ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

TASK MODELING; VISUAL PROGRAMMING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 0032679022     PISSN: 10715819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ijhc.1999.0270     Document Type: Article

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