Does fixation interfere with product usability?

Proceedings of the XIVth Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association and 44th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Association, 'Ergonomics for the New Millennium'

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 81-84

  Standaert, Achiel ^a   Christiaans, Henri ^b  

^a Hogeschool Antwerpen   (Belgium)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; CONSUMER PRODUCTS; ERROR ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; USER INTERFACES;

INTERFACE ERRORS; PRODUCT USABILITY;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 1842786554     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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