Stuck in the middle: The challenges of user-centered design and evaluation for infrastructure

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 297-304

  Edwards, W Keith ^a   Bellotti, Victoria ^a   Dey, Anind K ^b   Newman, Mark W ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Evaluation; Interactive software; Technical infrastructure; Toolkits

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INTERACTIVE DEVICES;

TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DESIGN;

APPLICATION DESIGN; APPLICATION SOFTWARES; CODE LIBRARIES; EVALUATION; INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN; INFRASTRUCTURE SOFTWARE; INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS; INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE; RUNTIMES; TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE; TOOLKITS; USER CENTERED DESIGNS; USER-CENTERED;

EID: 0038375555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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