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A comparison of usability techniques for evaluating design

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Designing Interactive Systems archive
Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques table of contents

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Pages: 101 - 110

Year of Publication: 1997

ISBN:0-89791-863-0

Authors

Ann Doubleday	Centre for HCI Design, School of Informatics, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, UK
Michele Ryan	Centre for HCI Design, School of Informatics, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, UK
Mark Springett	Centre for HCI Design, School of Informatics, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, UK
Alistair Sutcliffe	Centre for HCI Design, School of Informatics, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, UK

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
IFIP WG 13.2 : IFIP WG 13.2

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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