Content Preparation Guidelines for the Web and Information Appliances: Cross-Cultural Comparisons

Content Preparation Guidelines for the Web and Information Appliances: Cross-Cultural Comparisons

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-177

  Liao, Huafei ^a   Guo, Yinni ^b   Savoy, April ^c   Salvendy, Gavriel ^d  

^a BECHTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

^c SA Technologies   (United States)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

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DOI: 10.1201/9781420067781     Document Type: Book

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