Empirical usability testing in a component-based environment: Improving test efficiency with component-specific usability measures

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3425, Issue , 2005, Pages 20-37

  Brinkman, Willem Paul ^a   Haakma, Reinder ^b   Bouwhuis, Don G ^c  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

COMPONENT-BASED ENVIRONMENT; MOBILE TELEPHONES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENT; USABILITY METHODS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 24344485698     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/11431879_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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