Past, Present, and Future of User Interface Software Tools

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 3-28

  Myers, Brad ^a   Hudson, Scott E ^a   Pausch, Randy ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Event languages; Human Factors; interface builders; Languages; scripting languages; toolkits; user interface development environments; user interface software

Indexed keywords

EID: 85025391817     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/344949.344959     Document Type: Article

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