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Volume 2 , Issue 3 (July 1995) table of contents

Pages: 21 - 27

Year of Publication: 1995

ISSN:1072-5520

Author

Daniel Wildman

Bellcore, Piscataway, NJ

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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C. E. O'Malley; S. W. Draper, & M. S. Riley, Constructive Interaction: "A Method for Studying Human-Computer-Human Interaction". Proceedings of lFiP INTERACT "84: Human-Computer Interaction. pp. 269-274

CITED BY 8

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	Noëlly Grondin , J. M. Christian Bastien , Blandine Agopian, Les tests utilisateurs: avantages et inconvénients des passations individuelles et par paires, Proceedings of the 14th French-speaking conference on Human-computer interaction (Conférence Francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine), p.121-128, November 26-29, 2002, Poitiers, France
	William G. Griswold , Morison I. Chen , Robert W. Bowdidge , J. David Morgenthaler, Tool support for planning the restructuring of data abstractions in large systems, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, v.21 n.6, p.33-45, Nov. 1996
	Paul André , Max L. Wilson , Alistair Russell , Daniel A. Smith , Alisdair Owens , m.c. schraefel, Continuum: designing timelines for hierarchies, relationships and scale, Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, October 07-10, 2007, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
	Gail C. Murphy , Robert J. Walker , Elisa L. A. Baniassad, Evaluating Emerging Software Development Technologies: Lessons Learned from Assessing Aspect-Oriented Programming, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.25 n.4, p.438-455, July 1999
	Robert W. Bowdidge , William G. Griswold, How Software Engineering Tools Organize Programmer BehaviorDuring the Task of Data Encapsulation, Empirical Software Engineering, v.2 n.3, p.221-267, 1997
	William G. Griswold , Morison I. Chen , Robert W. Bowdidge , Jenny L. Cabaniss , Van B. Nguyen , J. David Morgenthaler, Tool Support for Planning the Restructuring of Data Abstractions in Large Systems, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.24 n.7, p.534-558, July 1998

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.1 MODELS AND PRINCIPLES

Additional Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
Subjects: Ergonomics

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors, Measurement

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