An effort based model of software usability

International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice 2009, SETP 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 75-83

  Komogortsev, Oleg V ^a   Mueller, Carl J ^a   Tamir, Dan ^a   Feldman, Liam ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVERSE FUNCTIONS; LEARNABILITY; LEARNING THEORY; MENTAL EFFORT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE USABILITIES; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; EXPERIMENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 70449680007     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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