Learning from technical documents: The role of intermodal referring expressions

Human Factors

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 257-264

  Dupont, Vincent ^a,b   Bestgen, Yves ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b IT Company   (Belgium)

^c FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ERGONOMICS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; VIDEO RECORDING;

INTERMODAL REFERRING EXPRESSIONS; PROCEDURAL TEXTS; TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MULTIMEDIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; READING; RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STUDENT; TECHNICAL AID; VIDEORECORDER;

BELGIUM; HUMANS; LEARNING; MANUALS; TEACHING; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33745946818     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872006777724462     Document Type: Article

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