Towards useful and usable interaction design tools: CanonSketch

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 19, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 597-613

  Campos, Pedro ^a   Nunes, Nuno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADEIRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Graphical user interfaces; Human computer interaction; OO HCI; User interface development environments; User centered design

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

USER INTERFACE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS; USER-CENTERED DESIGN;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 34548523250     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2007.05.006     Document Type: Article

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