Appropriating Heuristic Evaluation for Mobile Computing

International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (IJMHCI)

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 20-41

  Bertini, E ^a   Catarci, T ^b   Dix, A ^c   Gabrielli, S ^d   Kimani, S ^e   Santucci, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^e JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

context; heuristic evaluation; mobile computing; usability heuristics; usability problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007319143     PISSN: 1942390X     EISSN: 19423918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jmhci.2009010102     Document Type: Article

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