Cultural Effects in Usability Assessment

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 74-75

  Yeo, Alvin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

cultural issues; Malaysia; think aloud; usability testing

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL EFFECTS; CULTURAL ISSUE; MALAYSIA; THINK ALOUD; USABILITY ASSESSMENT; USABILITY EVALUATION TECHNIQUE; USABILITY TESTING;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 85142363336     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/286498.286536     Document Type: Conference Paper

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