Virtual objects in electronic catalogs: A human-computer interface issue

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 599-608

  Yen, Benjamin P C ^a   Ng, Kenny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Human computer interaction; Presentation style; Virtual reality (VR); Web based catalog

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ELECTRONIC CATALOGS; VIRTUAL OBJECT; WEB INTERFACE DESIGN;

MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 34347391471     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2007.897698     Document Type: Article

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