Using the Cognitive Walkthrough to improve the design of a visual programming experiment

IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 172-179

  Green, T R G ^a   Burnett, M M ^b   Ko, A J ^b   Rothermel, K J ^b   Cook, C R ^b   Schonfeld, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

COGNITIVE DIMENSIONS; VISUAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0033680567     PISSN: 10492615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/VL.2000.874381     Document Type: Article

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