How Do People Organize Their Desks?: Implications for the Design of Office Information Systems

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1983, Pages 99-112

  Malone, Thomas W ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Desk organization; personal information environments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976802630     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/357423.357430     Document Type: Article

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