Keep talking: An analysis of participant utterances gathered using two concurrent think-aloud methods

NordiCHI 2010: Extending Boundaries - Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 581-590

  Zhao, Tingting ^a   McDonald, Sharon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Think aloud studies; Usability testing; Verbal protocols

Indexed keywords

DIRECT IMPACT; NO CATEGORY; SOCIAL CONTEXT; THINK ALOUD; USABILITY PROBLEMS; USABILITY TESTING; VERBAL PROTOCOLS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 78650138891     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1868914.1868979     Document Type: Conference Paper

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