User-process model approach to improve user interface usability

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1098-1112

  Ju, Boryung ^a   Gluck, Myke ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MENU ITEMS; MENU ORGANIZATION; SOFTWARE INTERFACES; TASK COMPLETION TIME;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EFFICIENCY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 23944444836     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20201     Document Type: Article

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