Designing web portals in intergenerational teams: Two prototype portals for elementary school students

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 55, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 1140-1154

  Large, Andrew ^a   Beheshti, Jamshid ^a   Nesset, Valerie ^a   Bowler, Leanne ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; STUDENTS; USER INTERFACES;

DESIGN THEORIES; ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS; LITERATURES; RESEARCHERS;

PORTALS;

EID: 7544230116     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20069     Document Type: Article

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