Investigating users' intuitive interaction with complex artefacts

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 72-92

  Blackler, Alethea ^a   Popovic, Vesna ^a   Mahar, Doug ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Interface design; Intuitive interaction; Intuitive use; Observational analysis; Prior experience; Product design

Indexed keywords

ERGONOMICS; PHYSICAL THERAPY;

INTERFACE DESIGNS; INTUITIVE INTERACTION; INTUITIVE USE; OBSERVATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIOR EXPERIENCE;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; EXPERIENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTUITION; INTUITIVE INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 70349769303     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2009.04.010     Document Type: Article

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