The use of eBooks and interactive multimedia as alternative forms of technical documentation

Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Design of Communication - Documenting and Designing for Pervasive Information

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 108-115

  Davison, Gord ^a   Murphy, Steve ^a   Wong, Rebecca ^a  

^a IBM TORONTO LAB   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animation; Audio; Diagrams; Documentation; eBook; Graphic design; Human factors; Illustrations; User testing; Visualization

Indexed keywords

AUDIO; DIAGRAMS; DOCUMENTATION; EBOOK; GRAPHIC DESIGN; HUMAN FACTORS; ILLUSTRATIONS;

ABSTRACTING; ANIMATION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VISUALIZATION;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 84891021430     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1085313.1085340     Document Type: Conference Paper

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