What do usability evaluators do in practice?: an explorative study of think-aloud testing

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• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Symposium on Designing Interactive Systems

• Publication date

  2006-06-26

• Fields of study

  Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1145/1142405.1142439
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