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Usability studies of WWW sites: heuristic evaluation vs. laboratory testing
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Proceedings of the 15th annual international conference on Computer documentation table of contents
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Pages: 153 - 160  
Year of Publication: 1997
ISBN:0-89791-861-4
Authors
Laurie Kantner  Tec-Ed, Inc., P.O. Box 1905, Ann Arbor, MI
Stephanie Rosenbaum  Tec-Ed, Inc., P.O. Box 2351, Palo Alto, CA
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SIGDOC: ACM Special Interest Group for Design of Communications
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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1
Joseph F. Dumas , Janice C. Redish, A Practical Guide to Usability Testing, Greenwood Publishing Group Inc., Westport, CT, 1993
 
2
Kantner, L. (1994). Techniques for Managing a Usability Test. IEEE Transactions of Professional Communication, 37(3)pp. 143-148.
 
3
Jakob Nielsen, Usability Engineering, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, 1993
 
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Rosenbaum, S. and Kantncr, L. (1995). "Alternative Methods for Usability Testtng." ErgoCon '95 Proceedings, San Jose, CA, pp. 47-51.
 
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Robert A. Virzi, Refining the test phase of usability evaluation: how many subjects is enough?, Human Factors, v.34 n.4, p.457-468, Aug. 1992

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Carmelo Ardito , Rosa Lanzilotti , Paolo Buono , Antonio Piccinno, A tool to support usability inspection, Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces, May 23-26, 2006, Venezia, Italy
Elizabeth Kemp , D. T. Setungamudalige, A resource support toolkit (R-IDE): supporting the DECIDE framework, Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCHI New Zealand chapter's international conference on Computer-human interaction: design centered HCI, p.61-66, July 06-07, 2006, Christchurch, New Zealand
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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.4 INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS
      H.4.3 Communications Applications

          Nouns: Internet

Additional Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.1 Network Architecture and Design

          Nouns: Internet

  H. Information Systems
  H.1 MODELS AND PRINCIPLES
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)

  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.2 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
      I.2.8 Problem Solving, Control Methods, and Search
          Subjects: Heuristic methods

  K. Computing Milieux
  K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
      K.6.2 Installation Management
          Subjects: Performance and usage measurement


General Terms:
Algorithms, Design, Documentation, Human Factors, Management, Performance, Theory

Collaborative Colleagues:
Laurie Kantner: colleagues
Stephanie Rosenbaum: colleagues

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