Smartphone applications usability evaluation: A hybrid model and its implementation

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

Volumn 7623 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 146-163

  Kronbauer, Artur H ^a   Santos, Celso A S ^b   Vieira, Vaninha ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Remote Usability Evaluation; Smartphone Application; Usability Evaluation; Usability Testing

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT DATA; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HYBRID MODEL; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MOBILE SCENARIOS; QUANTITATIVE DATA; REMOTE USABILITY; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; USABILITY EVALUATION; USABILITY METRICS; USABILITY TESTING; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; REMOTE USABILITY EVALUATIONS; SMART-PHONE APPLICATIONS;

EXPERIMENTS; SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 84867890299     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-34347-6_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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