Electronic voting system usability issues

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 145-152

  Bederson, Benjamin B ^a   Lee, Bongshin ^a   Sherman, Robert M ^a   Herrnson, Paul S ^a   Niemi, Richard G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct Recording Electronic (DRE); Electronic voting systems; Voting usability

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA RECORDING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEMS;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 85088182727     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/642637.642638     Document Type: Conference Paper

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