Methods for assessing web design through the internet

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1316-1319

  Cuddihy, Elisabeth ^a   Wei, Carolyn ^a   Barrick, Jennifer ^a   Maust, Brandon ^a   Bartell, Alexandra L ^a   Spyridakis, Jan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet based research; Remote testing; Web design assessment

Indexed keywords

BROWSING BEHAVIOR; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXPERIMENTAL CONTROL; INTERNET-BASED RESEARCH; NATIVE ENVIRONMENT; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; REMOTE TESTING; SERVER LOGS; SURVEY DATA; USABILITY STUDIES; USER BEHAVIORS; WEB DESIGNS; WEB-DESIGN GUIDELINES;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84869114950     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1056808.1056905     Document Type: Conference Paper

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