Helping users to use help: Improving interaction with help systems

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1717-1718

  Dworman, Garett ^a   Rosenbaum, Stephanie ^a  

^a Tec Ed Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Help delivery mechanisms; Help systems; Information usability; Interaction design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876759664     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/985921.986198     Document Type: Conference Paper

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