Using cognitive dimensions: Advice from the trenches

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 302-327

  Dagit, Jason ^a   Lawrance, Joseph ^a   Neumann, Christoph ^a   Burnett, Margaret ^a   Metoyer, Ronald ^a   Adams, Sam ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Case study; Cognitive dimensions; Language design; Pitfalls; Visual programming language

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746215872     PISSN: 1045926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvlc.2006.04.006     Document Type: Article

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