Are wikis usable?

WikiSym 2005 - Conference Proceedings of the 2005 International Symposium on Wikis

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 3-15

  Désilets, Alain ^a   Paquet, Sébastien ^a   Vinson, Norman G ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collaborative Web Authoring; Groupware; Hypertext; Usability; Wiki

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; GROUPWARE; TEXT PROCESSING; USABILITY ENGINEERING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COLLABORATIVE WEB AUTHORING; HYPERTEXT; USABILITY;

HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS;

EID: 31844438749     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1104973.1104974     Document Type: Conference Paper

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