Struggling to excel: A field study of challenges faced by spreadsheet users

Proceedings - 2010 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 187-194

  Chambers, Chris ^a   Scaffidi, Chris ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT MODES; FIELD STUDIES; IN-FIELD; NUMERIC COMPUTATION; SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY;

SPREADSHEETS;

EID: 79952066714     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2010.33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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