Using visual momentum to explain disorientation in the Eclipse IDE

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 51-54

  De Alwis, Brian ^a   Murphy, Gail C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIELD STUDIES; INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SUBTASKS; VISUAL MOMENTUM;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; VISUALIZATION; WEB SERVICES;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 38049118571     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2006.49     Document Type: Conference Paper

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