Analyzing the interaction between facilitator and participants in two variants of the think-aloud method

IEEE International Professional Communication Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 323-327

  Van Den Haak, Maaike J ^a,b   De Jong, Menno D T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Constructive interaction; Conversation analysis; Think aloud protocols; Usability testing

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTIVE INTERACTION; CONVERSATION ANALYSIS; THINK-ALOUD PROTOCOLS; USABILITY TESTING;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745226226     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPCC.2005.1494192     Document Type: Conference Paper

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