Conducting preliminary steps to usability testing: Investigating the website of Uludaǧ University

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 890-894

  Şengel, Erhan ^a   Öncü, Semiral ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

evaluation of a website; human computer interaction; interface design; Usability testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957697737     PISSN: 18770428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.122     Document Type: Conference Paper

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