The effects of screen captures in manuals: A textual and two visual manuals compared

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 77-91

  Gellevij, Mark ^a   Van Der Meij, Hans ^a   De Jong, Ton ^a   Pieters, Jules ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Documentation; Motivation; Screen captures; Usability; Visualizations

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HANDBOOKS; VISUALIZATION;

SCREEN CAPTURES; TEXTUAL MANUALS; VISUAL MANUALS;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 0032683052     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/47.768161     Document Type: Review

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