User preference and performance with UML interaction diagrams

Proceedings - 2004 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 243-250

  Swan, Jennifer ^a   Kutar, Maria ^b   Barker, Trevor ^a   Britton, Carol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION DIAGRAMS; POST-TEST ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE DIAGRAMS; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE (UML);

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATA REDUCTION; GRAPH THEORY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEBSITES;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 16244383865     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2004.61     Document Type: Conference Paper

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