The Usability of Everyday Technology-Emerging and Fading Opportunities

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 74-105

  Petersen, Marianne Graves ^a   Madsen, Kim Halskov ^a   KjæR, Arne ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Activity theory; case study; Design; design; development in use; domestic technology; Human Factors; TV set; usability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013685819     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/513665.513667     Document Type: Article

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