Development of a Weighted Heuristic for Website Evaluation for Older Adults

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 404-418

  Lynch, Kyle R ^a   Schwerha, Diana J ^a   Johanson, George A ^b  

^a US Institute of Navigation   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE ABILITY; HEURISTIC CLASSIFICATION; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PERFORMANCE TESTING; REPEATED MEASURES; SYSTEM USABILITY; USER CHARACTERISTICS; WEBSITE EVALUATION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84877872080     PISSN: 10447318     EISSN: 15327590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2012.715277     Document Type: Article

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