Designing a usable mobile application for field data collection

IEEE AFRICON Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1187-1192

  Moe, Kyaw H ^a   Dwolatzky, Bany ^a   Van Olst, Rex ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Field Data Collection; Usability; User Interface Design for Mobile Devices

Indexed keywords

HAND HELD COMPUTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE COMPUTING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; USER INTERFACES;

FIELD DATA COLLECTION; POCKET COMPUTERS; USABILITY; USER INTERFACE DESIGN FOR MOBILE DEVICES;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 20744438329     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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