Heuristic evaluation of usability of geo Web sites

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

Volumn 4857 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 264-278

  Komarkova, Jitka ^a   Visek, Ondrej ^a   Novak, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARDUBICE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

GeoWeb; Heuristic evaluation; Internet GIS; Software quality; Usability; Web based GIS

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; USER INTERFACES;

HEURISTIC EVALUATION; SOFTWARE QUALITY; WEB-BASED GIS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 38449101869     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-76925-5_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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