Important issues in hypertext documentation usability
Published 1 October 1991Open access
Florence M. Fillion, Craig D. B. Boyle
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Article Free Access Share on Important issues in hypertext documentation usability Authors: Florence M. Fillion Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TexasView Profile , Craig D. B. Boyle Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TexasView Profile Authors Info & Claims SIGDOC '91: Proceedings of the 9th annual international conference on Systems documentationOctober 1991 Pages 59–66https://doi.org/10.1145/122778.122788Online:01 October 1991Publication History 4citation364DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations4Total Downloads364Last 12 Months14Last 6 weeks3 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF
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