Comparative study of disabled vs. non-disabled evaluators in user-testing: Dyslexia and first year students learning computer programming

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

Volumn 4554 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages 647-656

  Dixon, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Educational software; Learning computer programming; Software evaluation; User testing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE TESTING; STUDENTS; USER INTERFACES;

EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE; LEARNING COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE EVALUATION;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

EID: 38149019335     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73279-2_72     Document Type: Conference Paper

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