Usability guidelines for designing mobile learning portals

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems, Mobility '06

Volumn 270, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kuen Seong, Daniel Su ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Mobile learning; Usability; User interface

Indexed keywords

HAND HELD DEVICE; INTERACTION AND INTERFACE DESIGN; LEARNING PARADIGMS; LEARNING PROCESS; LITTLE RESEARCH; MOBILE INTERFACE; MOBILE INTERNET TECHNOLOGY; MOBILE LEARNING; NEW OPPORTUNITIES; RAPID EVOLUTION; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; USER ANALYSIS; USER FRIENDLY; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES;

TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; USER INTERFACES;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 77954380464     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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