An applied ethnographic method for redesigning user interfaces

Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS

Volumn 23-25-August-1995, Issue , 1995, Pages 115-122

  Rose, Anne ^a   Shneiderman, Ben ^b   Plaisant, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Design Methods; Ethnography; Evaluation; Participant Ohservation; Redesign; User Studies

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; DESIGN METHOD; ETHNOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; PARTICIPANT OHSERVATION; REDESIGN; USER STUDY;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 84984629859     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/225434.225447     Document Type: Conference Paper

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