Evaluating information visualization applications with focus groups: The CourseVis experience

Proceedings of BELIV'06: BEyond time and errors - novel EvaLuation methods for Information Visualization. A workshop of the AVI 2006 International Working Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Mazza, Riccardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Focus group; Human factors; Information visualization evaluation

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; VISUALIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOCUS GROUPS; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; SEMI-STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

DISTANCE EDUCATION;

EID: 34547228710     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1168149.1168155     Document Type: Article

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