Optimal amount of time for obtaining accurate usability-test results

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ACM Special Interest Group for Design of Communication archive
Proceedings of the 16th annual international conference on Computer documentation table of contents

Quebec, Quebec, Canada

Pages: 173 - 179

Year of Publication: 1998

ISBN:1-58113-004-X

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Susan Harrison	University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Department of Computer Science, Eat Claire, WI
Phillipa Mancey	IBM Global Services, I/T Specialist, Rochester, MN

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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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