Improving open source software usability

Association for Information Systems - 11th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2005: A Conference on a Human Scale

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages 2858-2863

  Zhao, Luyin ^a   Deek, Fadi P ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Case study; Heuristics; Open source software; Protocol analysis; Usability; Usability guideline; Usability testing

Indexed keywords

HEURISTICS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; PROTOCOL ANALYSIS; USABILITY; USABILITY GUIDELINE; USABILITY TESTING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 84869996765     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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