Investigating designers' and users' cognitive representations of products to assist inclusive interaction design

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Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 279-296

  Mieczakowski, Anna ^a   Langdon, Patrick ^a   Clarkson, P John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Approach to modelling user understanding; Cognition; Inclusive design; Mental models; Prior experience; Product design

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

APPROACH TO MODELLING USER UNDERSTANDING; COGNITION; INCLUSIVE DESIGN; MENTAL MODEL; PRIOR EXPERIENCE;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 84887182324     PISSN: 16155289     EISSN: 16155297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10209-012-0278-8     Document Type: Article

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