Reduction of cognitive load through the addition of high-level semantics to ReactoGraph

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

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 181-188

  Gauvin, Simon ^a   Smedley, Trevor ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE LOADS; DATA FLOW; HIGH LEVEL SEMANTICS; VISUAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; GRAPH THEORY; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 16244410496     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2004.43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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