Engineering E-collaboration processes to obtain innovative end-user feedback on advanced web-based information systems

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 196-220

  Bragge, Johanna ^a   Merisalo Rantanen, Hilkka ^a  

^a HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Collaboration Engineering; Evolutionary information systems development; ThinkLets; User feedback; Web Engineering; Web based information systems

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; WEBSITES;

COLLABORATION ENGINEERING; COLLABORATION PROCESS; END-USER FEEDBACK; EVOLUTIONARY INFORMATION; EVOLUTIONARY INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; THINKLETS; USER FEEDBACK; WEB BASED INFORMATION SYSTEMS; WEB ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION SERVICES;

EID: 70749113675     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00188     Document Type: Article

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