Usability in practice: Field methods evolution and revolution

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 880-884

  Wixon, Dennis R ^b   Ramey, Judy ^a   Holtzblatt, Karen ^b   Beyer, Hugh ^b   Hackos, JoAnn ^b   Rosenbaum, Stephanie ^b   Page, Colleen ^b   Laakso, Sari A ^b   Laakso, Karri Pekka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Consensus building; Contextual design; Contextual inquiry; Field research methods; Iterative design; User interface design; User centered design

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; ITERATIVE METHODS; RESEARCH; HUMAN ENGINEERING; JOB ANALYSIS; PRODUCT DESIGN; USER INTERFACES;

FIELD RESEARCH METHODS; CONTEXTUAL DESIGN; CONTEXTUAL INQUIRY; FIELD RESEARCH; ITERATIVE DESIGN; USER CENTERED DESIGNS; USER INTERFACE DESIGNS;

USER INTERFACES; ITERATIVE METHODS;

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