Cooperative usability testing: Complementing usability tests with user-supported interpretation sessions

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1383-1386

  Frøkjær, Erik ^a   Hornbæk, Kasper ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Contextual inquiry; Metaphors of human thinking; Think aloud; Usability testing

Indexed keywords

CONTEXTUAL INQUIRY; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; METAPHORS OF HUMAN THINKING; THEORY AND PRACTICE; THINK ALOUD; USABILITY PROBLEMS; USABILITY TESTING; USABILITY TESTS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

TESTING;

EID: 84869116176     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1056808.1056922     Document Type: Conference Paper

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