Analogy considered harmful

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 1982, Pages 383-386

  Halasz, Frank ^a   Moran, Thomas P ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILE ORGANIZATION;

COMPUTER FILES;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84989571991     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/800049.801816     Document Type: Conference Paper

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