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Showing 1 to 20 of 1469 for “"Usability"”.
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Supporting Novice Usability Practitioners with Usability Engineering Tools
The usability of an application often plays an important role in determining its success. Accordingly, organizations that develop software have realized the need to integrate usability engineering into their development lifecycles. Although usability practitioners have successfully applied …
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Usability Problem Description and the Evaluator Effect in Usability Testing
Previous usability evaluation method (UEM) comparison studies have noted an evaluator effect on problem detection in heuristic evaluation, with evaluators differing in problems found and problem severity judgments. There have been few studies of the evaluator effect in usability testing (UT), …
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Product usability and process improvement based on usability problem classification
… and practice have shown that the success of a usability engineering program depends on the identification and correction of usability problems, these problems remain an underutilized source of information. Insufficient guidance regarding the capture of usability problem data results in the loss …
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Usability of Websites
… easy to hard-to-use. There are some so-called usability criteria, which should be respected by web designers in order to make websites useful. Using a multicriteria decision making approach, we evaluate the performance, based on 7 usability criteria, of 5 websites from which one can buy books …
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Virtual Environment Usability Assessment Methods Based on a Framework of Usability Characteristics
… yet effective methods of incorporating usability engineering as an integral part of software engineering is a primary focus of human-computer interaction (HCI) research. However, much HCI research has focused primarily on inspecting and evaluating applications supporting command-line or …
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Re-usability of plastics
A research project was designed in order to learn more about the quality of recycled plastics when compared to new material. The study was carried out by researching and learning about how the recycling process operates. Further research was then conducted on the seven different types of resins …
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Remote Usability Evaluation Tool
… on user interface evaluation in traditional usability laboratories. Since the network itself and the remote work setting have become parts of usage patterns, evaluators do not have unlimited access to representative users for user interface evaluation. Reproducing the user's work context in a …
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Universal Usability of Virtual Reality
… themes that are concerned with the universal usability of VR.In the first theme, the gap in user experience quality between high-end VR platforms (PC VR) and low-end VR platforms (mobile VR) is addressed through the development of two low-cost acoustic interaction techniques for mobile VR. The …
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Usability-Oriented Software Development Process
Usability is the capability of the software product to be understood, learned, used and attractive to the user, when used under specified conditions. Many studies demonstrate the benefits of usability, yet to this day software products continue to exhibit consistently low levels of this quality …
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Designing virtual environments for usability
… user interaction in virtual environments and usability requirements to support that interaction. Studies of the design and use of virtual environments are used to demonstrate the need for interface design guidance. A theory of interaction for virtual environments is proposed, which includes …
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Usability of Fall Arrest Harnesses
… However, full adaption of PFAS is hindered by usability issues, particularly in the harness component. Current research aims to develop design requirements for more usable fall arrest harness. A study was conducted to consider the inter-relations of objective measures of fit and strap pressure, …
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Usability and Reliability of the User Action Framework: A Theoretical Foundation for Usability Engineering Activities
Various methods exist for performing usability evaluations, but there is no systematic framework for guiding and structuring assessment and reporting activities (Andre et al., 2000). Researchers at Virginia Tech have developed a theoretical foundation called the User Action Framework (UAF), which …
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PREDICTING THE USABILITY OF ALPHANUMERIC DISPLAYS
A review of the literature on alphanumeric displays, especially computer-generated displays, suggests that four basic characteristics of display formats affect how well users can extract information from the displays: (1) Overall density--the number of characters displayed, expressed as a …
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Determining the Effectiveness of the Usability Problem Inspector: A Theory-Based Model and Tool for Finding Usability Problems
The need for cost-effective usability evaluation has led to the development of methodologies to support the usability practitioner in finding usability problems during formative evaluation. Even though various methods exist for performing usability evaluation, practitioners seldom have the …
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ASSESSING THE USABILITY OF MONTEREY PHOENIX SOFTWARE
… thesis presents an examination of the software usability reported by a group of DOD military and civilian personnel who were exposed to one such application, the Monterey Phoenix (MP) modeling tool, for the first time. The objective of this analysis is to test the hypothesis that, among new …
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