Information design for the small-screen interface: An overview of Web design issues for personal digital assistants

Technical Communication

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 45-60

  Albers, Michael ^a   Kim, Loel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

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