Evaluation of an informational web site: Three variants of the think-aloud method compared

Technical Communication

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 58-71

  Van Den Haak, Maaike J ^a,b   De Jong, Menno D T ^a   Schellens, Peter Jan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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