Toward more usable electronic voting: Testing the usability of a smartphone voting system

Human Factors

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 973-985

  Campbell, Bryan A ^a   Tossell, Chad C ^b   Byrne, Michael D ^a   Kortum, Philip ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interface; Mobile; Usability; Voting

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

ELECTRONIC VOTING; MOBILE; MOBILE PLATFORM; PERCEIVED USABILITY; PERVASIVE TECHNOLOGIES; REMOTE PARTICIPATION; USABILITY; VOTING;

VOTING MACHINES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE PHONE; POLITICS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CELLULAR PHONE; FEMALE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLITICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905185111     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: 15478181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018720813519266     Document Type: Article

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