Semiotic engineering principles for evaluating end-user programming environments

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 467-495

  De Souza, C S ^a   Barbosa, S D J ^a   Da Silva, S R P ^a,b  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

End user programming; Evaluation methods; Semiotic engineering; Theoretical model; Usability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATA STRUCTURES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; FORMAL LANGUAGES;

END-USER PROGRAMMING; SEMIOTIC ENGINEERING;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SEMIOTICS;

END-USER PROGRAMMING (EUP); EVALUATION METHOD; SEMIOTIC ENGINEERING;

EID: 0035313799     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0953-5438(00)00051-5     Document Type: Article

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