Designing interfaces that support formation of cognitive maps of transitional processes: An empirical study

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 419-452

  Sedig, Kamran ^a   Rowhani, Sonja ^a   Liang, Hai Ning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive tools; Interaction design; Spatial representations; Temporal representations; Visual metamorphosis; Visual representations

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER VISION; CONFORMAL MAPPING; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

COGNITIVE TOOLS; INTERACTION DESIGN; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS; TEMPORAL REPRESENTATIONS; VISUAL METAMORPHOSIS; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 19944364898     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2005.02.002     Document Type: Article

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