An exploratory study of reading procedural pictorial sequences

Information Design Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 154-168

  Spinillo, Carla G ^a   Dyson, Mary C ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Pictorial instruction; Reading; Verbal instruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242618448     PISSN: 01425471     EISSN: 1569979X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/idj.10.2.13spi     Document Type: Article

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