Towards Usability Engineering for Online Editors of Volunteered Geographic Information: A Perspective on Learnability

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 523-544

  Jones, Catherine E ^a   Weber, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EYE TRACKING;

CASE-STUDIES; COGNITIVE LOADS; COMPLEX INTERFACE; CONTRIBUTION RATE; INFORMATION INTERFACES; INFORMATION PROJECTS; INFORMATION TOOLS; LEARN+; LEARNABILITY; VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

GIS; LEARNING; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84864570908     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2012.01319.x     Document Type: Article

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