Visual and textual consistency checking tools for graphical user interfaces

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 722-735

  Mahajan, Rohit ^a   Shneiderman, Ben ^a  

^a BDM International   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment tools; Consistency; Evaluation tools; Graphical User Interfaces; Metrics; Textual and visual style

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

ASSESSMENT TOOLS; EVALUATION TOOLS; METRICS; TEXTUAL CONSISTENCY;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

EID: 0031274491     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.637386     Document Type: Article

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