Sketching with conceptual metaphors to explain computational processes

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 95-102

  Hendry, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC PROCESS; COMPUTATIONAL PROCESS; DIVERSE RANGE; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; VISUALIZATION;

COBALT COMPOUNDS;

EID: 59249089374     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2006.44     Document Type: Conference Paper

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