Making use of business goals in usability evaluation: An experiment with novice evaluators

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 903-912

  Hornbæk, Kasper ^a   Frøkjær, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Business goals; Context information; Think aloud testing; Usability evaluation; Usability problems

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS GOALS; CONTEXT INFORMATION; THINK-ALOUD TESTING; USABILITY EVALUATION; USABILITY PROBLEMS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 57649216394     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1357054.1357197     Document Type: Conference Paper

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