Why it is difficult to use a simple device: An analysis of a room thermostat

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4550 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages 544-548

  Karjalainen, Sami ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Information needs; Knowledge; Thermostat; User interface design

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION NEEDS; USER INTERFACE DESIGN;

THERMOSTATS;

EID: 38149022646     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73105-4_60     Document Type: Conference Paper

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