Usability of voting systems: Baseline data for paper, punch cards, and lever machines

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 171-180

  Byrne, Michael D ^a   Greene, Kristen K ^a   Everett, Sarah P ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DRE; Effectiveness; Efficiency; Subjective usability; Voting

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; PUNCH CARD SYSTEMS; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

ACCESSIBILITY; LEVER MACHINES; PAPER BALLOTS; SUBJECTIVE USABILITY;

VOTING MACHINES;

EID: 35348818852     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240624.1240653     Document Type: Conference Paper

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