The obstacles and myths of usability and software engineering

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 71-76

  Seffah, Ahmed ^a   Metzker, Eduard ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b Software Technology Research Lab   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; TECHNOLOGY; USER INTERFACES;

CROSS-POLLINATION; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE; USABILITY; USER-CENTERED DESIGN (UCD);

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 10044239179     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1035134.1035136     Document Type: Review

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