Web evaluation: Heuristic evaluation vs. user testing

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 621-627

  Tan, Wei siong ^a   Liu, Dahai ^b   Bishu, Ram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b EMBRY RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heuristic evaluation; Usability testing

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS MODELS; BUSINESS DECISIONS; DESIGN PROCESS; EVALUATION RESULTS; HEURISTIC ANALYSIS; HEURISTIC EVALUATION; OVERALL EFFICIENCIES; USABILITY EVALUATION TECHNIQUES; USABILITY EVALUATIONS; USABILITY INSPECTIONS; USABILITY PROBLEMS; USABILITY TESTING; USER-TESTING; WEB DEVELOPMENT; WEB SITES;

INSPECTION;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNET; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 67349225428     PISSN: 01698141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ergon.2008.02.012     Document Type: Article

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