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Evaluating web usability using small display devices

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ABSTRACT

Usability is an important issue studied by many researchers and practitioners. Specifically, we are interested in evaluating web usability using small display devices.

In this paper we evaluate different type of navigation using small display devices: links, folio and search. In order to evaluate it, we propose a laboratory prototype.

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        SIGDOC '07: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication
        October 2007
        286 pages
        ISBN:9781595935885
        DOI:10.1145/1297144
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        • David Novick,
        • Program Chair:
        • Clay Spinuzzi

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