Getting the right and the design right: Testing many is better than one

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1243-1252

  Tohidi, Maryam ^a   Buxton, William ^b   Baecker, Ronald ^a   Seilen, Abigail ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design; Evaluation; Methods; Participatory Design; Prototyping; Usability Testing; User Centered Design

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PERFORMANCE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

METHODS; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; PROTOTYPING; USABILITY TESTING; USER CENTERED DESIGN;

SUBJECTIVE TESTING;

EID: 33745858365     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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