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Focus groups in HCI: wealth of information or waste of resources?

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CHI EA '02: CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/506443.506554

Published: 20 April 2002 Publication History

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Many HCI professionals frown on focus groups, while some believe focus group methodology can be successfully applied to collect usability data. This panel features interaction among HCI professionals with very different experiences and opinions.

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CHI EA '02: CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2002

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ISBN:1581134541

DOI:10.1145/506443

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Loren Terveen
AT&T Labs and University of Minnesota
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Dennis Wixon
Microsoft

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