Dynamic usability: Designing usefulness into systems for complex tasks

Content and Complexity: Information Design in Technical Communication

Volumn 9781410607409, Issue , 2014, Pages 233-262

  Mirel, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX TASK;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84920839677     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781410607409     Document Type: Chapter

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