Quantitative analysis in a heuristic evaluation experiment

Advances in Engineering Software

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1271-1278

  González, Marta ^a   Masip, Llúcia ^a   Granollers, Antoni ^a   Oliva, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Heuristic evaluation; Software metrics; Usability measurement

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EXPERIMENTS;

FREQUENCY PARAMETERS; HEURISTIC EVALUATION; INTERACTIVE SYSTEM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; SOFTWARE METRICS; USABILITY MEASUREMENT;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 68649095138     PISSN: 09659978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advengsoft.2009.01.027     Document Type: Article

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