Usability evaluation for museum web sites

Museum Management and Curatorship

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 229-252

  Cunliffe, Daniel ^a   Kritou, Efmorphia ^a   Tudhope, Douglas ^a  

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EID: 10644252067     PISSN: 09647775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09647770100201903     Document Type: Note

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