Better discount evaluation: Illustrating how critical parameters support heuristic creation

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 592-612

  Somervell, Jacob ^a   McCrickard, D Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical parameters; Evaluation; Heuristics; Notification systems

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; COLOR; EVALUATION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

CRITICAL PARAMETERS; CYCLIC DISPLAYS; INFORMATION EXCHANGE; NOTIFICATION SYSTEMS;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 23344448136     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2005.03.007     Document Type: Article

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