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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"User Testing"”.
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A Study of Fidelity Level and Task/Non-Task Based Testing Scenarios on the Effectiveness of Usability Testing
… better and all around friendlier environment for users. Unlike when buying a physical product where you purchase it first and then experience its usability, web site usability is immediately present. So, if a site doesn't meet our needs, we as users, are quick to look elsewhere. Some research has …
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FrED Manufacturing - A Study in Affordable Manufacturing to Scale using Desktop Sized Fiber Extrusion Device
… Tulip, develop educational content, perform user testing, and execute pilot runs. The focus of this thesis will be on design refinements related to graphical user interface (GUI), inclusion of threading for improvement to program speed, and characterization of performance related to diameter …
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Evaluation of pre-packaged agricultural drip irrigation kits
The purpose of this thesis is to conduct user testing and performance evaluation of two different agricultural pre-packaged drip irrigation kit (PDIK) systems: Chapin Bucket Kit and International Design Enterprises (IDE) drip kit. PDIK systems are a cost-effective type of appropriate technology for …
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Early stage product design process : a case study of an educational building kit
… To ensure the lamp was intuitive and fun to use, user testing was conducted. As the user interface (UI) for the lamp was designed and developed, tests were conducted with users using a variety of prototypes ranging from paper, cardboard, and plastic to PowerPoint storyboards on the computer. By …
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Affordable Fiber Extrusion Device for Educational Purposes: Design Improvements, Controls Development, and Manufacturing Scale-up
… creating educational content, and conducting user testing and pilot runs. This thesis specifically details the author’s contributions to enhancing mechanical designs, advancing control systems, increasing production capacity, and planning educational materials. Mechanical components in the …
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Video annotation for choreographers on the NB platform
… The updated annotator was then subjected to user testing to determine more ways in which software can be developed for the dance community and video annotation software can be improved.
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Adding audio clips functionality to TaleBlazer/
… This report presents results from conducting user testing of the new feature and specifies the subsequent improvements that were made. It also details the infrastructure enhancements made to improve all media support on the platform, including audio clips.
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Stokvels: bringing together borrowers, savers, and investors
… carried out on the system namely, (1) system testing, to evaluate the implemented features and their correctness, (2) a heuristic evaluation with a set of expert evaluators, (3) usability testing and (4) user acceptance testing with potential users of the application. The evaluators and users …
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Culture and International Usability Testing:The Effects of Culture in Interviews
Designing global interfaces for users has always been a challenge. This challenge is even greater today with the current trend of globalization, which leads to highly diverse users of the same product. The global audiences for the software and information technology products belong to different …
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Using Sound to Represent Uncertainty in Spatial Data
… technology available and have had very limited user testing. While existing research shows that sonification can be done, it does not show whether it is an effective and useful method of representing spatial data to the end user. A number of prototypes show how spatial data can be sonified, but …
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Continuous execution : improving user feedback in the development cycle
… are increasing the amount of feedback given to users during the development cycle. This work continues with this trend by exploring continuous execution, a programming environment where the result of executing part of a user's code is outputted as the user writes it. This extra feedback provided …
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Exploring game analytics solutions for data-driven user research in indie studios
User research methodologies can be applied to games for the purposes of evaluating and improving them. Performing user testing during game development can highlight issues in gameplay early on, generally improving the end product. However, this evaluation can be costly, requiring frequent user …
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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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Increasing customization in a location-based augmented reality software platform
… during gameplay, which in turn, improves the user experience while using the mobile application. Additionally, I redesigned the user interface used for interacting with these icons in the editor. This UI redesign increases learnability and usability by creating parallels between the editor and …
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New tools to enable children to manipulate images through computer programming
… the black box' of image processing. Through user testing done with children, it was shown that the new framework sufficiently exposed the image-processing concepts so that children were able to create their own compelling image-processing algorithms. Although this framework was not ideal for …
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The tangible map : designing the user interface for a public installation
… the MIT campus. The Tangible Map will provide users the opportunity to both search for specific facts about the campus as well as learn new and surprising insights about their own community. Through a sequence of development, design reviews, and user testing, the Tangible Map investigates the …
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Chorus : end user programming of social applications
Chorus is an end-user programming tool for building mobile social applications, much in the spirit of HyperCard¹ but reimagined for modern cloud-based applications on smart phones. Chorus innovates in two dimensions: first, by supporting collaboration via "social datatypes" that define a shared …
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Redesigning a prosthesis for a golfer with transhumeral amputation
… than his two-armed colleagues. Significant user testing was carried out using various prototypes with Gibson. Analysis was performed with Gibson's feedback, video comparisons of swings, and data from both motion capture and flight analysis software. Not only were differences in the dynamics …
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Dance2Music : an exploration of music creation through dance in virtual reality
… based on the way that the dancer moves. The user is immersed in an environment where they are free to express themselves, and the user's hand and head positions are tracked in real time. We develop a set of mappings from movement to musical responses that translates the user's movement …
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Designing and Testing a Virtual Reality Intervention for Improving Patient Mental Health and Wellbeing in Secondary Care
… of evidence gathering, software design and user testing which together lead to an eventual VR intervention in a secondary care setting.<br/>This thesis works towards four key objectives:<br/>A) Design and implement a VR intervention.<br/>B) Explore how people interact with a specific VR …
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