The Impact of Personality on the Subjective Assessment of Usability

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 177-186

  Kortum, Philip ^a   Oswald, Frederick L ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; USER INTERFACES;

PERCEIVED USABILITY; PERSONALITY TRAITS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES; SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENTS; SYSTEM USABILITY; SYSTEM USABILITY SCALE (SUS); USABILITY ASSESSMENT;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 85027340638     PISSN: 10447318     EISSN: 15327590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2017.1336317     Document Type: Article

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