Towards satisfying practitioners in using Planning Support Systems

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 67, Issue , 2018, Pages 9-20

  Russo, Patrizia ^a,b   Lanzilotti, Rosa ^c   Costabile, Maria F ^c   Pettit, Christopher J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Global Spatial Network Board   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Human Centred Design; PSS usability; User test

Indexed keywords

PLANNING; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EVALUATION; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN-CENTRED DESIGNS; MAJOR FACTORS; PLANNING SUPPORT SYSTEM USABILITY; PLANNING SUPPORT SYSTEMS; SPECIFIC TASKS; SYSTEM FUNCTIONALITY; SYSTEM USABILITY; USER TESTS;

USER INTERFACES;

DESIGN; LAND MANAGEMENT; PLANNING PRACTICE; RESEARCH;

EID: 85033671411     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2017.08.009     Document Type: Review

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