Case studies for teaching usability engineering

SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 36-40

  Rosson, Mary Beth ^a   Carroll, John M ^a   Rodi, Con M ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Case studies; Case based learning; Human computer interaction; Scenario based development; Usability engineering

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDIES; CASE-BASED LEARNING; MEANINGFUL ISSUES; SCENARIO-BASED DEVELOPMENT;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STUDENTS; TEACHING; WEB BROWSERS;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 33646831314     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: 00978418     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1028174.971315     Document Type: Conference Paper

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