Designing for user cognition and affect in software instructions

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 18-29

  Hans van der Meij, ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Affect; Minimalism; Software instructions

Indexed keywords

EID: 39749195510     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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