Experiments with Oval: A Radically Tailorable Tool for Cooperative Work

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 177-205

  Malone, Thomas W ^a   Lai, Kum Yew ^a   Fry, Christopher ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

computer supported cooperative work; end user programming; groupware; radical tailorability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976671477     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/201040.201047     Document Type: Article

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