Usability benchmark study of commercially available smart phones: Cell phone type platform, PDA type platform and PC type platform

MobileHCI 2008 - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 265-272

  Keijzers, Jeroen ^a   Den Ouden, Elke ^a,b   Lu, Yuan ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Design; Smart phone; Usability evaluation; User interface

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK STUDIES; CELL PHONES; COMPETITIVE MODELS; COMPLEX PRODUCTS; DESIGN GUIDELINES; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; SMART PHONE; SYMBIAN; USABILITY EVALUATION;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMPUTERS; DESIGN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; TELEPHONE; USER INTERFACES; WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

TELEPHONE SETS;

EID: 65449174347     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1409240.1409269     Document Type: Conference Paper

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