Facilitating collaboration through contract visualization and modularization

ECCE 2011 - European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2011: 29th Annual Conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 57-60

  Passera, Stefania ^a   Haapio, Helena ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b Lexpert Ltd   (Finland)

Author keywords

communicating contracts; contract ergonomics; information design; modularity; visual communication

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS MANAGERS; COGNITIVE ERGONOMICS; COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS; INFORMATION DESIGN; INTER-FIRM COLLABORATION; LEGAL DOCUMENTS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; MODULARITY; MODULARIZATIONS; RESEARCH APPROACH; RESEARCH PLANS; RESEARCH TEAMS; WORK-IN-PROGRESS;

COMMUNICATION; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INDUSTRY; MODULAR CONSTRUCTION; RESEARCH; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; VISUALIZATION;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 84255186336     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2074712.2074724     Document Type: Conference Paper

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