Toward building self-sustaining groups in PCR-based tasks through implicit coordination: The case of heuristic evaluation

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 170-195

  Lowry, Paul Benjamin ^a   Roberts, Tom L ^b   Dean, Douglas L ^a   Marakas, George ^c  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Collaboration engineering; Collaborative software; Group size; Heuristic evaluation; Human computer interaction; ThinkLets; Usability evaluation; Virtual groups; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; GROUPWARE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SOFTWARE DESIGN; USABILITY ENGINEERING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COLLABORATION; COLLABORATION ENGINEERING; COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARES; GROUP SIZE; HEURISTIC EVALUATION; THINKLETS; USABILITY EVALUATION; VIRTUAL GROUP; VIRTUAL TEAM;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 70749154883     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00189     Document Type: Article

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