User interface evaluation and empirically-based evolution of a prototype experience management tool

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 838-850

  Seaman, Carolyn B ^a,b   Mendonça, Manoel G ^c   Basili, Victor R ^b   Kim, Yong Mi ^d  

^a Baltimore County   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Universidade Salvador   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical study; Experience management; Experience reuse; Knowledge management; User interface evaluation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; USER INTERFACES;

EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT; EXPERIENCE REUSE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; USER INTERFACE EVALUATION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0142039734     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2003.1232288     Document Type: Article

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