Why it's worth the hassle: The value of in-situ studies when designing ubicomp

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

Volumn 4717 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 336-353

  Rogers, Yvonne ^a,b   Connelly, Kay ^b   Tedesco, Lenore ^c   Hazlewood, William ^b   Kurtz, Andrew ^b   Hall, Robert E ^c   Hursey, Josh ^b   Toscos, Tammy ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Evaluation; In situ studies; Mobile learning; Usability; User experience

Indexed keywords

USABILITY ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; DESIGN PROCESS; MOBILE LEARNING; SUBSTANTIAL REDESIGN; USER EXPERIENCE;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 38149001555     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74853-3_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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