Why Are Some Diagrams Easier to Work With? Effects of Diagrammatic Representation on the Cognitive Integration Process of Systems Analysis and Design

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 181-213

  Hahn, Jungpil ^a   Kim, Jinwoo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Design; diagrammatic manipulation; Diagrammatic representation; GOMS; Human Factors; visual grammar

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886439465     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/329693.329694     Document Type: Article

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