IMPROVING THE USABILITY EVALUATION TECHNIQUE, HEURISTIC EVALUATION, THROUGH THE USE OF COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARE

9th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 2203-2211

  Lowry, Paul Benjamin ^a   Roberts, Tom ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

collaborative software; distributed work; HCI; Heuristic evaluation; usability

Indexed keywords

GROUPWARE; HEURISTIC METHODS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARES; CREATIVE PROCESS; DISTRIBUTED WORK; FACE TO FACE; GROUP AWARENESS; GROUP CONSENSUS; HEURISTIC EVALUATION; SOFTWARE USABILITIES; USABILITY; USABILITY EVALUATION TECHNIQUE;

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 70749118927     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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