Statistical profiles of highly-rated web sites

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 367-374

  Ivory, Melody Y ^a   Hearst, Marti A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated Usability Evaluation; Empirical Studies; Web Site Design; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AUTOMATED USABILITY;

WEBSITES;

EID: 0037818412     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/503376.503442     Document Type: Conference Paper

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