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Test early, test often: a formative usability kit for writers

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ACM Special Interest Group for Design of Communication archive
Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on Systems documentation table of contents

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Pages: 47 - 55

Year of Publication: 1992

ISBN:0-89791-532-1

Author

Sophie Kohn Kaminsky

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Northern Telecomm : Northern Telecomm
SIGDOC: ACM Special Interest Group for Design of Communications
Bell Northern Res. : Bell Northern Resources

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	1	Jermifer M. Atkinson, Usability Testing: Online and Under Budget, Proceedings of 37th ITC Conference, 1990
	2	John Clegg, Usability Testing by Writers, Bell Northern Research, 1991
	3	Walter Dick and Lou Carey, The Systematic Design of Instruction, 1984
	4	Patricia Dorazio, Building Usability Testing into the Technical Writing Class, Proceedings of 37th ITC Conference, 1990
	5	Jardce Gougeon, A method to analyze user needs for infommtion products, Bell Northern Research, 1991
	6	Malcolm Graham, Do-it-yourself usability testing, Bell Northern Research, 1989
	7	R. Allen Harris, A Do-It-Yourself Usability Kit, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Vol. 21-4, 1991
	8	Ginny Rextish, Applying Research to Document Design, 37th ITC Conference, 1990

CITED BY

Morten Hertzum, Making use of scenarios: a field study of conceptual design, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, v.58 n.2, p.215-239, February 2003

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
D.2.7 Distribution, Maintenance, and Enhancement
Subjects: Documentation

Additional Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
Subjects: Training, help, and documentation
H.5.3 Group and Organization Interfaces
Subjects: Theory and models; Evaluation/methodology

General Terms:
Design, Documentation, Human Factors

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