E-book design preferences: A case study

Proceedings - International Symposium on Information Technology 2008, ITSim

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Pei, Fen Chong ^a   Lim, Yan Peng ^a   Siew, Woei Ling ^a  

^a MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SURVEYS;

CASE STUDIES; CONTENT DESIGNS; E-BOOKS; EASE OF USES; ONLINE SURVEYS; PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMATS; STUDY MATERIALS;

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE;

EID: 57349177742     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4631538     Document Type: Conference Paper

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