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Prototyping: tools and techniques: improving software and documentation quality through rapid prototyping

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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: 191 - 199

Year of Publication: 1992

ISBN:0-89791-532-1

Authors

Michael Thompson
Nina Wishbow

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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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CITED BY

Youn-kyung Lim , Apurva Pangam , Subashini Periyasami , Shweta Aneja, Comparative analysis of high- and low-fidelity prototypes for more valid usability evaluations of mobile devices, Proceedings of the 4th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: changing roles, p.291-300, October 14-18, 2006, Oslo, Norway

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
D.2.m Miscellaneous
Subjects: Rapid prototyping**

Additional Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
D.2.7 Distribution, Maintenance, and Enhancement
Subjects: Documentation
D.2.9 Management
Subjects: Software quality assurance (SQA)

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: Theory and methods

General Terms:
Documentation, Human Factors, Theory

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