The ISTE approach to usability testing

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 209-223

  Van Der Meij, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Concurrent testing; Manuals; Usability testing

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HANDBOOKS;

CONCURRENT TESTING; INFORMATION SUBTYPES EFFECT (ISTE); USABILITY TESTING;

PERSONNEL TESTING;

EID: 0031232950     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/47.649556     Document Type: Article

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