An integrated environment for testing and assessing the usability of information appliances using digital and physical mock-ups

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

Volumn 4563 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 478-487

  Kanai, Satoshi ^a   Horiuchi, Soh ^a   Kikuta, Yukiaki ^b   Yokoyama, Akihiko ^b   Shiroma, Yoshiyuki ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Cs Lab Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c SAPPORO CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Digital mockup; Physical mockup; Usability test; User interface

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DIGITAL MOCKUP; PHYSICAL MOCKUP; USABILITY TESTS;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 38349013445     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73335-5_52     Document Type: Conference Paper

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