Usability engineering for the adaptive web

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

Volumn 4321 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 720-762

  Gena, Cristina ^a   Weibelzahl, Stephan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL COLLEGE OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; WEB SERVICES;

ADAPTIVE WEB; EVALUATION PHASE; POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS; WEB BASED SYSTEMS;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 38849155314     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72079-9_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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