Usability Evaluation In Industry

✍ Scribed by Patrick W. Jordan (Editor); B. Thomas (Editor); Ian Lyall McClelland (Editor); Bernard Weerdmeester (Editor)

Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 1996
Leaves: 273
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book provides a variety of answers in its description and discussion of new, sometimes radical approaches to `usability evaluation`, now an increasingly common business tool. It contains new thinking of the subject of usability evaluation in industry. Contributions come from those involved in the practice of industry-based usability evaluation

✦ Table of Contents

Part 1 Elements of usability: a combined effort in the standardization of user interface; usable usability evaluations - if the mountain won`t come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain; combining data in the evaluation of product usability. Part 2 Selecting evaluation methods: factors affecting methods and techniques of usability evaluation; information ecologies, experience and ergonomics; do-it-yourself usability evaluation - guiding software developers to usability. Part 3 Field studies: service information and evaluation; evaluation of a multi- system situation; observation as a technique for usability evaluation; field based prototyping. Part 4 Informal methods: quick and dirty usability tests; effective informal methods; getting the most out of quick and dirty user interface simulations. Part 5 New evaluation methods: a cost-effective method for the "in the field" usabilty evaluation; co-discovery exploration - an informal method for the iterative design of consumer products; private camera conversation - a new method for eliciting user responses; repatory grid theory and its application to product evaluation. Part 6 "Off the shelf" evaluation methods: software usability measurement inventory - background and usage; the usability checklist approach revisited; SUS - a quick and dirty usability scale; FACE - a rapid method for evaluation user interfaces. Part 7 Task analysis: hierarchical task analysis - an overview; task analysis for error identification. Part 8 Issues relating to usability evaluation: performance measurement and ecological evaluation; seminar discussions - issues for usability evaluation in industry.

✦ Subjects

Engineering & Technology;Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing;Quality Control & Reliability;Production Engineering;Manufacturing Engineering

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