Toward a best practice for laboratory-based usability evaluations of mobile ICT for hospitals

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 358, Issue , 2008, Pages 3-12

  Alsos, Ole Andreas ^a   Dahl, Yngve ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b TELENOR RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Mobile computing; Pervasive computing; Point of care systems; Usability evaluation

Indexed keywords

BEST PRACTICE; CLINICAL WORK; DYNAMIC NATURE; FIELD EVALUATION; LESSONS LEARNED; MOBILE INFORMATION; MULTI-PERSPECTIVE; PERVASIVE COMPUTING; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; TEST ENVIRONMENT; TEST RESULTS; TEST SCENARIO; USABILITY EVALUATION; USABILITY TESTS;

HOSPITALS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LABORATORIES;

MOBILE COMPUTING;

EID: 70049109294     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1463160.1463162     Document Type: Conference Paper

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