Spatially oriented and person oriented thinking - Implications for user interface design

Education and Information Technologies

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 67-80

  Gulz, Agneta ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Gender; Instructional multimedia; Person oriented thinking; Spatially oriented thinking; User interface preferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042646822     PISSN: 13602357     EISSN: 15737608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015366725781     Document Type: Article

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