Procedural and declarative information in user instructions: What we do and don't know about these information types

IEEE International Professional Communication Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 328-333

  Karreman, Joyce ^a   Ummelen, Nicole ^b,c   Steehouder, Michael ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c IEEE   (Netherlands)

^d STIC   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Declarative information; Information types; Procedural information; User instructions

Indexed keywords

DECLARATIVE INFORMATION; INFORMATION TYPES; PROCEDURAL INFORMATION; USER INSTRUCTIONS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; USER INTERFACES;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 33745277603     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPCC.2005.1494193     Document Type: Conference Paper

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