Spatial-semantics: How users derive shape from information space

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 521-528

  Dillon, Andrew ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

SPATIAL SEMANTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 0033731680     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(2000)51:6<521::AID-ASI4>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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