Consolidating usability problems with novice evaluators

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 358, Issue , 2008, Pages 495-498

  Law, Effie Lai Chong ^a   Hvannberg, Ebba Thora ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Confidence; Consensus building; Downstream utility; Evaluator effect; Filtering; Merging; Severity; Usability problems

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE; CONSENSUS BUILDING; DOWNSTREAM UTILITY; EVALUATOR EFFECT; FILTERING; SEVERITY; USABILITY PROBLEMS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MERGING;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 70049097444     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1463160.1463228     Document Type: Conference Paper

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