Usability in practice: Alternatives to formative evaluations - Evolution and revolution

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 891-897

  Rohn, Janice A ^a   Spool, Jared ^b   Ektare, Mayuresh ^c   Koyani, Sanjay ^d   Muller, Michael ^e   Redish, Janice ^f  

^a Siebel Systems Inc   (United States)

^b User Interface Engineering   (United States)

^c CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e IBM   (United States)

^f Redish and Associates Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Error messages; Guidelines; Inspection methods; Participatory design; Usability engineering; Usability methods; User experience; User centered design

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; USER INTERFACES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INSPECTION;

ERROR MESSAGES; GUIDELINES; INSPECTION METHODS; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; USABILITY METHODS; USER CENTERED DESIGNS; USER EXPERIENCE;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 0038725951     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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