Comparative study of heuristic evaluation and usability testing methods

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 143, Issue , 2009, Pages 322-327

  Thyvalikakath, Thankam Paul ^a   Monaco, Valerie ^b   Thambuganipalle, Himabindu ^c   Schleyer, Titus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dental CPR; Heuristic evaluation; Human computer interaction; Usability testing

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; SOFTWARE TESTING; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

ACTUAL USABILITIES; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DENTAL CPR; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; HEURISTIC EVALUATION; USABILITY PROBLEMS; USABILITY TESTING; USABILITY TESTING METHODS;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DENTISTRY; EVALUATION; MEDICAL RECORD;

DENTISTRY; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 67449091041     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-58603-979-0-322     Document Type: Conference Paper

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