Affordance and symmetry in user interfaces

Computer Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 650-661

  Cairns, Paul ^a   Thimbleby, Harold ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affordance; Consistency; HCI; Mode; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 55449085856     PISSN: 00104620     EISSN: 14602067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/comjnl/bxm102     Document Type: Article

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