Measuring usability: Preference vs. Performance

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 66-75

  Nielsen, Jakob ^a   Levy, Jonathan ^b  

^a TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; USER INTERFACES;

DECISION SPACE; INTERFACE DESIGN; SOFTWARE EVALUATION;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 0028409636     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/175276.175282     Document Type: Article

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