Exploring the facebook experience : A new approach to usability

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 358, Issue , 2008, Pages 471-474

  Hart, Jennefer ^a   Ridley, Charlene ^a   Taher, Faisal ^a   Sas, Corina ^a   Dix, Alan ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Facebook; Social networking sites; Usability; User experience; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION; FACEBOOK; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; USABILITY; USER EXPERIENCE; WEB 2.0;

HEURISTIC METHODS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 70049083649     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1463160.1463222     Document Type: Conference Paper

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