A pattern-based usability inspection method: First empirical performance measures and future issues

People and Computers XXI HCI.But Not as We Know It - Proceedings of HCI 2007: The 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Schmettow, Martin ^a   Niebuhr, Sabine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

^b Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Experiment; Usability inspection; Usability patterns

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; HEURISTIC METHODS; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

CONCRETE DESIGN; DEFECT IDENTIFICATION; EMPIRICAL PERFORMANCE; EVALUATION; HEURISTIC EVALUATION; INSPECTION METHODS; USABILITY INSPECTION; USABILITY PATTERNS;

INSPECTION;

EID: 84860531140     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/hci2007.71     Document Type: Conference Paper

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