Navigating the Gap between Action and a Serving Information System

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 273-284

  Champion, Donna ^a,b   Stowell, Frank ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Client led; Conversation modelling; Information systems design; Interpretive

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036355863     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019998319595     Document Type: Article

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