The Usability Construct: A Dead End?

Human-Computer Interaction

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 131-177

  Tractinsky, Noam ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

COMPUTER INTERACTION; FORMATIVE MEASUREMENTS; FORMATIVE MODELS; INTERACTIVE SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT MODEL; SCIENTIFIC FIELDS; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; USER EXPERIENCE;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 85018407659     PISSN: 07370024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07370024.2017.1298038     Document Type: Article

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