Task design: Its impact on usability testing

Proceedings - 3rd International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, ICIW 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 583-589

  Alshamari, Majed ^a   Mayhew, Pam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Structured tasks; Tasks; Uncertain tasks; Usability testing

Indexed keywords

STRUCTURED TASKS; TASKS; UNCERTAIN TASKS; USABILITY TESTING;

INTERNET;

EID: 51049095646     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIW.2008.20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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