LemonAid: Selection-based crowdsourced contextual help for web applications

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1549-1558

  Chilana, Parmit K ^a   Ko, Andrew J ^a   Wobbrock, Jacob O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextual help; Crowdsourced help; Software support

Indexed keywords

CONTEXTUAL HELP; CROWDSOURCED HELP; DISCUSSION FORUM; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; SOFTWARE SUPPORT; TECHNICAL SUPPORT; TEXTUAL QUERY; WEB APPLICATION;

USER INTERFACES; WEBSITES;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84862086427     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2208620     Document Type: Conference Paper

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