Long-term working memory and interrupting messages in human-computer interaction

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 53-64

  Oulasvirta, Antti ^a,b   Saariluoma, Pertti ^c  

^a HELSINKI INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

SEMANTIC CONTENT ELABORATION; SEMANTIC INTERFERENCE;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 0942299783     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01449290310001644859     Document Type: Article

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