Design as a minority discipline in a software company: Toward requirements for a community of practice

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 383-390

  Muller, Michael J ^a   Carey, Kenneth ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Community of practice; Design; Design techniques; Knowledge management; User studies; Work analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; PUBLISHING;

WORK ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 0037480824     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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