Usability makeover of a cognitive modeling tool

Ergonomics in Design

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 8-14

  Wu, Changxu ^a   Liu, Yili ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Modeling tool; Queuing network; User interface design

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; QUEUEING NETWORKS; USER INTERFACES;

COGNITIVE MODELING TOOL; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; USER INTERFACE DESIGN;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 34347272266     PISSN: 10648046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/106480460701500201     Document Type: Article

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