Thinking aloud: Reconciling theory and practice

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 261-278

  Boren, M Ted ^b   Ramey, Judith ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THINKING-ALOUD PROTOCOLS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0034270623     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/47.867942     Document Type: Article

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