Obstacles to usability evaluation in practice: A survey of software development organizations

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 358, Issue , 2008, Pages 23-32

  Bak, Jakob Otkjær ^a   Nguyen, Kim ^b   Risgaard, Peter ^c   Stage, Jan ^d  

^a TARGIT A/S   (Denmark)

^b Logica   (Denmark)

^c EUCNORD ^*  (Denmark)

^d AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Obstacles; Software development; Usability evaluation

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; GEOGRAPHICAL AREA; INTERVIEW STUDY; OBSTACLES; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS; RESOURCE DEMANDS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS; USABILITY EVALUATION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SURVEYS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 70049110243     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1463160.1463164     Document Type: Conference Paper

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