Usability of user interface styles for learning a graphical software application

2012 International Conference on Computer and Information Science, ICCIS 2012 - A Conference of World Engineering, Science and Technology Congress, ESTCON 2012 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1089-1094

  Feizi, Andisheh ^a   Wong, Chui Yin ^a  

^a MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

command line interface (CLI); graphical software application; graphical user interface (GUI); usability; user interface styles

Indexed keywords

COMMAND LINE INTERFACE; DIFFERENT EFFECTS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INTERFACE DESIGNERS; PERFORMANCE VARIABLES; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; USABILITY; USABILITY ATTRIBUTES;

EFFICIENCY; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INFORMATION SCIENCE; TECHNOLOGY; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 84867874364     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCISci.2012.6297188     Document Type: Conference Paper

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