An empirical methodology for usability analysis of a touchscreen-based information kiosk system for african users with low levels of computer literacy

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3196, Issue , 2004, Pages 203-218

  Blignaut, Pieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; PRODUCTIVITY; USER INTERFACES;

COMPUTER LITERACY; INFORMATION KIOSKS; LANGUAGE BARRIERS; LEARNABILITY; USABILITY ANALYSIS; USABILITY METRICS; USABILITY TECHNIQUES; USABILITY TESTING;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 35048852647     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30111-0_17     Document Type: Article

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