Adding motivational elements to an instruction manual for seniors: Effects on usability and motivation

Technical Communication

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 343-358

  Loorbach, Nicole ^a   Karreman, Joyce ^a   Steehouder, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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