Undo and erase events as indicators of usability problems

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 659-668

  Akers, David ^a,b   Simpson, Matthew ^b   Jeffries, Robin ^b   Winograd, Terry ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical incidents; Erase; Google sketchup; Undo; Usability testing; User reported critical incident technique

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL INCIDENT TECHNIQUE; CRITICAL INCIDENTS; ERASE; GOOGLE SKETCHUP; UNDO; USABILITY TESTING;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; JOB ANALYSIS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 80755144127     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518804     Document Type: Conference Paper

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