Putting students in the driver’s seat: Web usability testing on a shoestring

Public Services Quarterly

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 43-66

  Valentine, Barbara ^a   Nolan, Sarah ^b  

^a LINFIELD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Information seeking; Qualitative research; Undergraduates; User perspectives; Web usability testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 36448986177     PISSN: 15228959     EISSN: 15229114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J295v01n02_05     Document Type: Article

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