Response to commentaries on 'The usability metric for user experience'

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 327-330

  Finstad, Kraig ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

psychometrics; scale development; statistics; usability; user experience

Indexed keywords

STATISTICS; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

LIKERT SCALE; PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; SCALE DEVELOPMENT; SCORING SYSTEMS; SYSTEM USABILITY SCALE (SUS); USABILITY; USABILITY FACTORS;

USER EXPERIENCE;

EID: 84879249508     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/iwc/iwt005     Document Type: Review

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