Low cost prototyping: Part 2, or how to apply the thinking-aloud method efficiently

Proceedings of the 22nd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Culture, Creativity, Interaction, BCS HCI 2008

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 217-218

  Holzinger, Andreas ^a   Brown, Stephen ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost reduction; Method; Thinking aloud; Usability; User centred design

Indexed keywords

COST REDUCTION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; SOFTWARE DESIGN; USABILITY ENGINEERING; USER CENTERED DESIGN;

COMPETITIVE MARKETS; END-FUNCTIONALITY; GAIN INSIGHT; INTERFACE DEVELOPMENT; LOW COSTS; METHOD; THINKING ALOUD; USABILITY;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 84923779449     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/hci2008.83     Document Type: Conference Paper

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