How interface design determines who has difficulty learning to use a text editor

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 1983, Pages 176-181

  Gomez, Louis M ^a   Egan, Dennis E ^a   Wheeler, Evangeline A ^b   Sharma, Dhiraj K ^a   Gruchacz, Aleta M ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

COGNITIVE DEMANDS; INTERFACE DESIGNS; OLDER PEOPLE; SPATIAL MEMORY; STANDARD TESTS; TEXT EDITING;

FILE EDITORS;

EID: 84982501224     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/800045.801605     Document Type: Conference Paper

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