Using iconicity to evaluate symbol use

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4061 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 874-881

  Evans, David Gareth ^a   Bowick, Lisa ^b   Johnson, Marianne ^a   Blenkhorn, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CNERTA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

ETHNIC GROUPS; ICONICITY TESTING; SYMBOL CORRECTNESS; SYMBOL PERCEPTION;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

EID: 33748563162     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11788713_127     Document Type: Conference Paper

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