A case study of usability testing on an asynchronous e-Learning platform

2009 Joint Conferences on Pervasive Computing, JCPC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 693-697

  Guo, Yuqing ^a   Wang, Jiazhen ^b   Moore, Joi ^b   Liu, Mingzhuo ^a   Chen, Hsin Liang ^b  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

e Learning; e Learning interface design; Usability evaluation; Usability testing

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS E-LEARNING; E-LEARNING PLATFORMS; INTERFACE DESIGNS; LEARNING OUTCOME; LEARNING TASKS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; USABILITY EVALUATION; USABILITY TESTING; USER PERCEPTIONS;

DESIGN; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 77951267634     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/JCPC.2009.5420093     Document Type: Conference Paper

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