The "Charge of the Byte Brigade" and a socio-technical response

International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 235-251

  Clegg, Chris W ^a   Gray, Melanie Older ^a   Waterson, Patrick E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

FUNCTION ALLOCATION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 0033747160     PISSN: 10715819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ijhc.1999.0287     Document Type: Article

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