Building up usability-engineering capability by improving access to automated usability evaluation

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 199-211

  Stary, Chris ^a   Eberle, Peter ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Automated usability evaluation; Design; Evaluation; Usability; Usability engineering

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

AUTOMATED USABILITY EVALUATION; AUTOMATICALLY CHECKING SPECIFICATIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 39149107780     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2007.11.001     Document Type: Article

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