Perspective-based usability inspection: An empirical validation of efficacy

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 43-69

  Zhang, Zhijun ^a,b   Basili, Victor ^a   Shneiderman, Ben ^a  

^a University of Maryland ^*  (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

PERSPECTIVE-BASED USABILITY INSPECTION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 0033100742     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009803214692     Document Type: Article

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