Situated evaluation for cooperative systems

Proceedings of the 1994 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 1994

Volumn , Issue , 1994, Pages 441-452

  Twidale, Michael ^a   Randall, David ^b   Bentley, Richard ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air trafilc control; Ethnographic observation; Evaluation; Multi user interface design; Rapid prototyping

Indexed keywords

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; COST EFFECTIVENESS; GROUPWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; RAPID PROTOTYPING;

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER; CO-OPERATIVE SYSTEMS; CONTEXT OF USE; COST-EFFECTIVE METHODS; ETHNOGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS; EVALUATION; GENERATOR TOOL; MULTI USER INTERFACES;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 85021832158     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/192844.193066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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