Theory development in visual language research: Beyond the cognitive dimensions of notations

2009 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 151-154

  Moody, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CDS; COGNITIVE DIMENSIONS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; END POINTS; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; SCIENTIFIC THEORIES; THEORY DEVELOPMENT; VISUAL LANGUAGE;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

RESEARCH;

EID: 73449083379     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2009.5295275     Document Type: Conference Paper

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