The semiotic inspection method

Proceedings of the VII Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems, IHC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 148-157

  De Souza, Clarisse Sieckenius ^c   Leitão, Carla Faria ^c   Prates, Raquel Oliveira ^a,c   Da Silva, Elton José ^b,c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

^c PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Inspection methods; Qualitative methods; Semiotic engineering

Indexed keywords

INSPECTION METHODS; QUALITATIVE METHODS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INSPECTION;

SEMIOTICS;

EID: 42149178518     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1298023.1298044     Document Type: Conference Paper

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