Don’t underestimate the problems of user centredness in software development projectsthere are many!?

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 226-236

  Heinbokel, Torsten ^a   Sonnentag, Sabine ^a   Frese, Michael ^a   Stolte, Wolfgang ^a   Brodbeck, Felix C ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGES; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; USER INTERFACES;

COGNITIVE EMOTIONAL SYSTEM; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; USER CENTEREDNESS; USER PARTICIPATION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030180882     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014492996120157     Document Type: Article

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