Helping relations between technology users and developers: A vignette study

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 56-69

  Ellis, Shmuel ^a   Tyre, Marcie J ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Help giving; Help seeking; Knowledge gap; Learning; Problem solving; Relative expertise; Task difficulty; Time urgency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035245605     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/17.913166     Document Type: Article

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