Moderating Usability Tests: Principles and Practices for Interacting

Moderating Usability Tests: Principles and Practices for Interacting

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-185

  Dumas, Joseph S ^a   Loring, Beth A ^a  

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-373933-9.X5001-1     Document Type: Book

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