Analyzing a socio-technical visualization tool using usability inspection methods

Proceedings - 2008 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 78-81

  Trainer, Erik ^a   Quirk, Stephen ^a   De Souza, Cleidson ^b   Redmiles, David ^a  

^a Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; VISUALIZATION;

ARIADNE; COORDINATION OF WORKS; END USERS; FIELD STUDIES; HUMAN SUBJECTS; INSPECTION METHODS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOFTWARE COMPONENTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; SOFTWARE PROJECTS; USABILITY EVALUATIONS; USABILITY INSPECTIONS; VISUAL INTERFACES; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

INSPECTION;

EID: 56349125724     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2008.4639062     Document Type: Conference Paper

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