Usability of GeoWeb sites: Case study of Czech regional authorities web sites

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

Volumn 4439 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 411-423

  Komarkova, Jitka ^a   Novak, Martin ^a   Bilkova, Renata ^a   Visek, Ondrej ^a   Valenta, Zdenek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARDUBICE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

GeoWeb; Internet GIS; Usability; Usability testing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; USER INTERFACES;

SPATIAL INFORMATION; USABILITY TESTING;

WEBSITES;

EID: 38049046790     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72035-5_32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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