User Interface Software Tools

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 64-103

  Myers, Brad A ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

interface builders; toolkits; user interface development environments; user interface software

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960095694     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/200968.200971     Document Type: Article

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