It's not a property! Exploring the sociomateriality of software usability

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Riemer, Kai ^a   Vehring, Nadine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Sociomateriality; Usability; Usability testing; Workplace software

Indexed keywords

SOCIOMATERIALITY; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS; STABLE SETS; USABILITY; USABILITY TESTING; USE CONTEXT;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 84870965704     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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