Layout Appropriateness: A Metric for Evaluating User Interface Widget Layout

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 1993, Pages 707-719

  Sears, Andrew ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic layout; layout appropriateness; metrics; simplified task description; user interface

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INTERFACE WIDGET LAYOUT; LAYOUT APPROPRIATENESS; TASK ANALYSIS; TASK INDEPENDENT METHODS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0027629472     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.238571     Document Type: Article

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