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Enhancing the explanatory power of usability heuristics

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CHI '94: Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing SystemsApril 1994https://doi.org/10.1145/259963.260333

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CHI '94: Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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CHI '94: Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems
April 1994
483 pages
ISBN:0897916514
DOI:10.1145/259963
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Catherine Plaisant
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