AESTHETICS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: Motivation and Future Research Directions

Human-Computer Interaction and Management Information Systems: Foundations

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 330-347

  Tractinsky, Noam ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Design; Human Computer Interaction; Information Technology; Visual Appearance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85139604834     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315703619-26     Document Type: Chapter

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