Looking at human-computer interface design: Effects of ethnicity in computer agents

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 512-523

  Pratt, Jean A ^a   Hauser, Karina ^b   Ugray, Zsolt ^b   Patterson, Olga ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer agents; Ethnicity; Human computer interface design; Personalisation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER AGENTS; ETHNICITY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 34347220871     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2007.02.003     Document Type: Article

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