Stencils-based tutorials: Design and evaluation

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 541-550

  Kelleher, Caitlin ^a   Pausch, Randy ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interaction technique; Transparent overlay; Tutorials; User interface design

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ERROR ANALYSIS;

INTERACTION TECHNIQUE; TRANSPARENT OVERLAY; TUTORIALS; USER INTERFACE DESIGN;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 80051474602     PISSN: 02749696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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