Usability evaluation involving participants with cognitive disabilities

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 82, Issue , 2004, Pages 305-308

  Lepistö, Auli ^a   Ovaska, Saila ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Informal walkthrough; Participant with cognitive disabilities; Usability evaluation

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE DISABILITY; COMPLEMENTARY METHODS; COMPUTERIZED TOOLS; EXPERT EVALUATION; LITTLE RESEARCH; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PILOT TESTS; THINK ALOUD; USABILITY EVALUATION; USABILITY EVALUATION METHODS; USABILITY PROBLEMS; USABILITY TESTS; USER GROUPS; WALKTHROUGHS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 77953016918     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1028014.1028061     Document Type: Conference Paper

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