The spatial nature of thought: Understanding information systems design through diagrams;Le caractère spatial de la pensée: Comprendre la conception des systèmes d'information grâce aux diagrammes

ICIS 2008 Proceedings - Twenty Ninth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Nickerson, Jeffrey V ^a   Corter, James E ^b   Tversky, Barbara ^b   Zahner, Doris ^a   Rho, Yun Jin ^b  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordance; Diagram understanding; Information systems design; Topology; Visualization

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; ALTERNATIVE DESIGNS; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; DECISION AIDS; DESIGN ALTERNATIVES; DIAGRAM UNDERSTANDING; EUCLIDEAN SPACES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONALS; SPATIAL POSITIONS; STRUCTURAL DIAGRAM; VERTICAL POSITIONS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; GEOMETRY; GRAPHIC METHODS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY;

DESIGN;

EID: 84870957755     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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