Organizational Obstacles to Interface Design and Development: Two Participant-Observer Studies

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 52-80

  Poltrock, Steven E ^a   Grudin, Jonathan ^b  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 70049094095     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/174630.174633     Document Type: Article

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