Breaking affordance: Culture as context

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 82, Issue , 2004, Pages 81-84

  Oshlyansky, Lidia ^a   Thimbleby, Harold ^a   Cairns, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affordance; Culture; Design context

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; COMPUTER INTERFACES; DESIGN CONTEXT; LIGHT SWITCHES; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS; UNITED KINGDOM; USER INTERFACE DESIGNS;

DESIGN; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; USER INTERFACES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 55449106778     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1028014.1028025     Document Type: Conference Paper

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