An ethnography of communication approach to mobile product testing

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 325-332

  Gallant, Linda M ^a  

^a BENTLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Ethnography; Mobile; Proof of concept; Usability; User experience

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SERVICES; MARKETING; PRODUCT DESIGN; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE; ETHNOGRAPHY; PROOF-OF-CONCEPT; USER EXPERIENCE;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 33746656379     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0053-4     Document Type: Article

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