The contribution of structural activities to successful design

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 122-126

  Kvan, Thomas ^a   Wong, John T H ^a   Vera, Alonso H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CSCWD; Design; Learning; Problem solving; Representation; Text

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STUDENTS;

DESIGN LEARNING;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 0037273918     PISSN: 09528091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCAT.2003.000319     Document Type: Article

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