How useful is on-line help?: An observational study

Proceedings - 1998 Australasian Computer Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 1998

Volumn 1998-November, Issue , 1998, Pages 94-101

  Abdullahi, Usman G ^a   Alty, James L ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Expert; Hypertext; Intermediate; Novice.; On line Help; Ontology; User Manuals

Indexed keywords

HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY;

EXPERT; HYPERTEXT; INTERMEDIATE; NOVICE; ON-LINE HELP; USER MANUAL;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 27644599586     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OZCHI.1998.732201     Document Type: Conference Paper

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