Instruction formats and navigation aids in mobile devices

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5298 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 339-358

  Ziefle, Martina ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Instruction format; Landmark knowledge; Navigation aid; Navigation effectiveness; Route knowledge; Survey knowledge

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; EFFICIENCY; FORESTRY; NAVIGATION; SURVEYS; USABILITY ENGINEERING; VISUALIZATION;

INSTRUCTION FORMAT; LANDMARK KNOWLEDGE; NAVIGATION AIDS; ROUTE KNOWLEDGE; SURVEY KNOWLEDGE;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 70350678886     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89350-9_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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