Identifying and selecting users for user-centered design

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 82, Issue , 2004, Pages 297-303

  Kujala, Sari ^a   Kauppinen, Marjo ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Field studies; Personas; Usability; User characteristics; User profiles; User centered design; Users

Indexed keywords

FIELD STUDIES; ITERATIVE PROCESS; SYSTEMATIC PROCESS; USER CENTERED DESIGNS; USER CHARACTERISTICS; USER GROUPS; USER NEED; USER PROFILE;

DESIGN; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 77952964298     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1028014.1028060     Document Type: Conference Paper

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