Best practices for designing third party applications for contextually-aware tools

SIGDOC 2010 - Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 95-102

  Jones, Dave ^a   Potts, Liza ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Heuristics; Social media; Social networking systems; Third party tools; Twitter; Usability

Indexed keywords

HEURISTICS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKING; THIRD-PARTY TOOLS; TWITTER; USABILITY;

ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS; COMMUNICATION; DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; MANAGEMENT; USER INTERFACES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 78650911605     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1878450.1878466     Document Type: Conference Paper

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