A usability-evaluation metric based on a soft-computing approach

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 356-372

  Chang, Elizabeth ^a   Dillon, Tharam S ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fuzzy systems; Usability; User interfaces

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; FEEDBACK CONTROL; FUZZY SETS; USABILITY ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

CONSISTENCY; ERROR PREVENTION; SYSTEM FEEDBACK;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY;

EID: 33244475336     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2005.851349     Document Type: Article

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