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Website Evaluation: A Usability-Based Perspective

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Advances in Informatics (PCI 2001)

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The usability is recognized as an important quality factor of any modern website. In this paper, techniques for usability evaluation of a website are proposed and their use is described. The results of application of these techniques are discussed in the frame of the design and evaluation of a web portal, serving an Academic Department. The applicability of the developed techniques in a wide area of web-based applications and their importance in the context of today’s web applications development is also discussed in this paper.

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Avouris, N., Tselios, N., Fidas, C., Papachristos, E. (2003). Website Evaluation: A Usability-Based Perspective. In: Manolopoulos, Y., Evripidou, S., Kakas, A.C. (eds) Advances in Informatics. PCI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2563. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-38076-0_15

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