On the impact of layout quality to understanding UML diagrams

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 135-142

  Störrle, Harald ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE LOADS; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; LAYOUT QUALITY; PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE; REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS; UML DIAGRAMS; VISUAL QUALITIES;

EID: 82855176904     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2011.6070390     Document Type: Conference Paper

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