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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Usability Inspection"”.
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A Usability Problem Inspection Tool: Development and Formative Evaluation
Usability inspection methods of user interaction designs have gained importance as an alternative to traditional laboratory-based testing methods because of their cost-effectiveness. However, methods like the heuristic evaluation are ad-hoc, lacking a theoretical foundation. Other, more formal …
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Industry Usage, Stakeholder Perceptions, and Usability Characteristics of Hazard Controls Leading to the Development of a Design Process and Taxonomy for Large Handheld Powered Equipment.
… the saw. The design process and subsequent usability inspection engendered a taxonomy, or set of design recommendations can be applied to large handheld powered tools.
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A Case Study of the Effects of a Web Interface Redesign Based on Usability Guidelines.
<p>Usability guidelines for user interface (UI) design formulated by Nielsen and other authorities were used to redesign the web interface for a web based distance education course. The website's original UI, as judged by a group of web design professionals, violated standard guidelines for …
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The role of metaphor in user interface design
… Medusa design is critiqued using well-founded usability inspection method. Employing the Lakoff/Johnson theory, a revised version of the Medusa user interface is described that derives its application semantics and dialogue structures from the entailments of the knowledge structures that ground …
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Usability Engineering Applied to an Electromagnetic Modeling Tool
… of this interface, feedback was collected from a usability specialist and a group of geophysics graduate students to study the steps users take to work through the 2D forward-modeling problem, and to analyze usability errors encountered while working with the interface to gain a better …
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Design and evaluation of a web-based training tool for the User Action Framework Explorer
… about the importance of user centered design and usability. In the Virginia Tech Usability tools lab, efforts are underway to develop tools and processes that assist in usability evaluation. This has led to the development of the User Action Framework (UAF) (Andre et al., 1999), a framework that …
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The Development and Pilot Test of a Shortened Systematic Review Format For Use By Physicians
… by an expert in human factors engineering (a usability inspection method), and a review of the clinical content in the prototypes. Iterative focus groups were then conducted with physicians who provided input on the refinement of the two prototypes. Their feedback guided changes to the format, …
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Utility of agricultural mobile apps among Indian rural farmers
… mobile apps intended for Indian crop farmers for usability (ease of use) and functionality (content, features, & information needs). Towards this, I conducted three studies: studying global agricultural apps, evaluating an agricultural app developed for Indian farmers with usability experts in the …
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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 …