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Brief description of the topic: Usability evaluation is explored by comparing the effectiveness of using different evaluation methods and by studying how usability evaluation is conducted by practitioners.
Research area. Usability, evaluation, agile development, Scrum, practice.
Short Paper for the Doctorial Consortium at INTERACT 2011.
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Larusdottir, M.K. (2011). Usability Evaluation in Software Development Practice. In: Campos, P., Graham, N., Jorge, J., Nunes, N., Palanque, P., Winckler, M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2011. INTERACT 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6949. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23768-3_50
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