An Investigation of the Roles of Individual Differences and User Interface on Database Usability

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 50-65

  Curl, Steven S ^a   Olfman, Lome ^b   Satzinger, John W ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

computer human interaction; database queries; end user computing; spatial representation; visualization ability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869103056     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/506812.506821     Document Type: Article

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