Investigation of indirect oral operation method for think aloud usability testing

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6776 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 38-46

  Hori, Masahiro ^a   Kihara, Yasunori ^a   Kato, Takashi ^a  

^a KANSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Concurrent think aloud protocols; keep talking; prototype evaluation; usability testing

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPLEX TASK; CONTINUOUS FLOWS; KEEP TALKING; MANUAL OPERATIONS; OPERATION METHODS; PHOTO ALBUM; PROTOTYPE EVALUATION; TEST OBJECT; THINK ALOUD; THINK-ALOUD PROTOCOL; THINKING ALOUD; TOUCH SCREEN; USABILITY PROBLEMS; USABILITY TESTING; THINK ALOUD USABILITY TESTING;

CAMERAS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; USABILITY ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SOFTWARE TESTING; TOUCH SCREENS;

SOFTWARE TESTING; USER INTERFACES;

EID: 79960091109     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21753-1_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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