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1991
 
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Woods, Andy, Browne, Dermot P. and Friend, John (1991): Helping the Police with Their Enquiries. In: Diaper, Dan and Hammond, Nick (eds.) Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the British Computer Society Human Computer Interaction Specialist Group - People and Computers VI August 20-23, 1991, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. pp. 347-358.

A software development project was undertaken to show how modern User Interfacing Techniques could significantly improve the usability of an existing Police System. The following reports the User-Centred approach taken to this work, including difficulties encountered. A formal evaluation was undertaken of the work. This is reported at some length as an example of the difficulties of performing usability evaluations within viable timescales.

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