Master usability scaling: Magnitude estimation and master scaling applied to usability measurement

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 335-342

  McGee, Mick ^a  

^a ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Definition; Master; Scale; Universal; Usability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTRONIC MAIL; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; METADATA; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

DEFINITION; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION; MASTER USABILITY SCALING (MUS); USABILITY;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 4544334263     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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