Analysis of strategies for improving and estimating the effectiveness of heuristic evaluation

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 82, Issue , 2004, Pages 241-250

  Law, Effie Lai Chong ^a   Hvannberg, Ebba Thora ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Cognitive engineering; Effectiveness

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE ENGINEERING; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FACTORIAL DESIGN; HEURISTIC EVALUATION; NIELSEN; USABILITY PROBLEMS; USER TESTS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 77952993506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1028014.1028051     Document Type: Conference Paper

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