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Cognitive strain as a factor in effective document design
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Proceedings of the 15th annual international conference on Computer documentation table of contents
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Pages: 1 - 6  
Year of Publication: 1997
ISBN:0-89791-861-4
Author
Michael J. Albers  Department of English, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
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SIGDOC: ACM Special Interest Group for Design of Communications
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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