Mis-usability: On the uses and misuses of usability testing

ACM SIGDOC Annual International Conference on Computer Documentation, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 26-30

  Dicks, R Stanley ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Documentation; Usability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; PRODUCT DESIGN; TECHNICAL WRITING; TEXT PROCESSING; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

USABILITY TESTINGS;

PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

EID: 0037628192     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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