The Four Components of a Procedure

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-14

  Van der Meij, Hans ^a   Gellevij, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Design guidelines; Information typology; Instructional design; Screen captures

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER KEYBOARDS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS); PROBLEM SOLVING; TEXT PROCESSING;

DESIGN GUIDELINES; INFORMATION TOPOLOGY; INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNS; SCREEN CAPTURES; TEXT EDITING;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 1642633700     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPC.2004.824292     Document Type: Article

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