Mobile computer web-application design in medicine: Some research based guidelines

Universal Access in the Information Society

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 31-41

  Holzinger, Andreas ^a   Errath, Maximilian ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Information interfaces and representation; Interface design; Internet applications; Life and medical sciences; Mobile computing

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MEDICINE; OPTIMIZATION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

INFORMATION INTERFACE AND REPRESENTATION; INTERFACE DESIGN; WEB-APPLICATIONS;

MOBILE COMPUTING;

EID: 34548036678     PISSN: 16155289     EISSN: 16155297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10209-007-0074-z     Document Type: Review

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