The Buzz: Supporting user tailorability in awareness applications

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1729-1738

  Eagan, James R ^a   Stasko, John T ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

End user customization; Information awareness; Programming

Indexed keywords

BEVERAGES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PROGRAMMING THEORY;

END-USER CUSTOMIZATION; INFORMATION AWARENESS; INFORMATION SOURCES; PROGRAMMING; SHARED DISPLAYS; TAILORABILITY;

APPLICATIONS;

EID: 57649189034     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1357054.1357324     Document Type: Conference Paper

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