Community enhanced tutorials: Improving tutorials with multiple demonstrations

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1779-1788

  Lafreniere, Ben ^a,b   Grossman, Tovi ^a   Fitzmaurice, George ^a  

^a AUTODESK RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community; Help; Learning; Tutorials

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY; COMPLEX SOFTWARE; HELP; LEARNING; NOVEL ARCHITECTURE; TUTORIALS; VIDEO DEMONSTRATION; WEB-BASED TUTORIALS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; WEBSITES;

DEMONSTRATIONS;

EID: 84877943542     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2466235     Document Type: Conference Paper

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