Scientific end-user developers and barriers to user/customer engagement

Journal of Organizational and End User Computing

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 51-63

  Segal, Judith ^a   Morris, Chris ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Customer engagement; End user development; Scientific end user development; Scientific software development; User engagement

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DOMAINS; CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT; DISTRIBUTED GROUPS; END USER DEVELOPMENT; END-USER DEVELOPERS; SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE SUPPORT; USER ENGAGEMENT;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84860512285     PISSN: 15462234     EISSN: 15465012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/joeuc.2011100104     Document Type: Article

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