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Proceedings of the 8th annual ACM symposium on User interface and software technology table of contents
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Pages: 101 - 110  
Year of Publication: 1995
ISBN:0-89791-709-X
Author
Andrew Sears  School of Computer Science, DePaul University, 243 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL
Sponsors
SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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Anthony J. Hornof, The low-level cognitive processes involved in the visual search of pull-down menus and computer screens, as revealed by cognitive modeling, CHI 98 conference summary on Human factors in computing systems, p.52-53, April 18-23, 1998, Los Angeles, California, United States
 
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Melody Y. Ivory , Marti A. Hearst, Improving Web Site Design, IEEE Internet Computing, v.6 n.2, p.56-63, March 2002
 
Andreas Lecerof , Fabio Paternò, Automatic Support for Usability Evaluation, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.24 n.10, p.863-888, October 1998
James Fogarty , Scott E. Hudson, GADGET: a toolkit for optimization-based approaches to interface and display generation, Proceedings of the 16th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, p.125-134, November 02-05, 2003, Vancouver, Canada
 
Rohit Mahajan , Ben Shneiderman, Visual and Textual Consistency Checking Tools for Graphical User Interfaces, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.23 n.11, p.722-735, November 1997
Scott E. Hudson , Bonnie E. John , Keith Knudsen , Michael D. Byrne, A tool for creating predictive performance models from user interface demonstrations, Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, p.93-102, November 07-10, 1999, Asheville, North Carolina, United States
 
Ahmed Seffah , Mohammad Donyaee , Rex B. Kline , Harkirat K. Padda, Usability measurement and metrics: A consolidated model, Software Quality Control, v.14 n.2, p.159-178, June 2006
 
Aline Chevalier , Melody Y. Ivory, Web site designs: influences of designer's expertise and design constraints, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, v.58 n.1, p.57-87, January 2003
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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)

  K. Computing Milieux
  K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
      K.6.0 General
          Subjects: Economics
      K.6.2 Installation Management
          Subjects: Pricing and resource allocation


General Terms:
Design, Economics, Human Factors, Management, Measurement, Performance, Theory


Keywords:
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