Usability constructs: A cross-cultural study of how users and developers experience their use of information systems

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

Volumn 4559 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages 317-326

  Hertzum, Morten ^a   Clemmensen, Torkil ^b   Hornbæk, Kasper ^c   Kumar, Jyoti ^d   Shi, Qingxin ^b   Yammiyavar, Pradeep ^d  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

Author keywords

Cultural usability; Repertory grid technique; Usage experiences

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

CULTURAL USABILITY; REPERTORY-GRID TECHNIQUES; USAGE EXPERIENCES;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 38149037915     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73287-7_39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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