Web usability testing with a hispanic medically underserved population

Journal of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 114-121

  Moore, Mary ^a   Bias, Randolph G ^b   Prentice, Katherine ^c   Fletcher, Robin ^b   Vaughn, Terry ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^d Senior Information Architect   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FAMILY; HISPANIC; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; LIBRARIAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPUTER LITERACY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TEXAS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 66249143033     PISSN: 15365050     EISSN: 15589439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.97.2.008     Document Type: Article

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