From mental effort to perceived usability: Transforming experiences into summary assessments

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1283-1286

  Hassenzahl, Marc ^a   Sandweg, Nina ^b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Perceived usability; Questionnaires; User experience

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION; MEASUREMENT STRATEGIES; MENTAL EFFORT; PERCEIVED USABILITY; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPEATED MEASUREMENTS; USER EXPERIENCE;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; SURVEYS; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84876770994     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/985921.986044     Document Type: Conference Paper

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