Making database systems usable

Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 13-24

  Jagadish, H V ^a   Chapman, Adriane ^a   Elkiss, Aaron ^a   Jayapandian, Magesh ^a   Li, Yunyao ^a   Nandi, Arnab ^a   Yu, Cong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Database; Usability; User interface

Indexed keywords

DATA MODEL PRESENTATION; DATABASE RESEARCHERS; DATABASE USABILITY;

DATA STRUCTURES; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; USABILITY ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 35448989827     PISSN: 07308078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1247480.1247483     Document Type: Conference Paper

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