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Usable Knowledge, Usable Ignorance

Knowledge, 1987
Despite all our research, a truthful response to questions such as "What's going to happen to the biosphere? " will most often be "We don't know, and we won't know." We go on to explore how, in the face of overwhelming ignorance, scientific inquiries in policy-related contexts can most responsibly and effectively be conducted.
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Making Usability Data More Usable

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1998
Usability tests often include recording of users' behaviors as they interact with a computer; unfortunately, these data are often underused for design due to their complexity and the difficulty in interpreting them. In recent years, a variety of methods have been proposed for analyzing user behavioral sequences.
Douglas J. Gillan, Nancy J. Cooke
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Usability foresight: strategic usability planning

ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 1994
This is the report of a Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting on Usability Foresight held at CHI'92. The discussion focused on how to set meaningful priorities for human factors/ usability research into human-computer interactions. This report describes the method presented and summarizes the results of a hands-on activity completed during the meeting.
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New ISO Standards for Usability, Usability Reports and Usability Measures

2016
Several new and revised ISO standards will be published in 2016/17 that define the basic terms and concepts of usability ISO 9241-11, give guidance on processes and outcomes of human-centred design ISO 9241-220, provide examples of measures that can be used in usability evaluation ISO/IEC 25022 and 25023 and define what should be included in usability ...
Nigel Bevan, Jim Carter, Jonathan Earthy, Thomas Geis, Susan Harker   +4 more
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Evaluating WAP usability: "what usability?"

Proceedings. IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education, 2003
Some educational communities and organizations have recognized the possibilities of mLearning. mLearning may provide tools to respond to the demands of working life and information society. One way to enhance mLearning is to raise the usability of mobile terminals as good usability is the basis for the meaningful and effective learning.
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USABILITY IS NOT JUST USABILITY

2017
Much of the research on metacognition in human factors has focused on prescriptive, normative strategy training. That is, many researchers have concentrated their efforts on finding ways to improve system users’ prediction, planning, monitoring and evaluation strategies for tasks.
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Usability

2002
System Usability is becoming increasingly important in situations where assistance in the operation of a system is not readily available for the user. Traditionally, usability measures have consisted of post development testing in a usability lab. Usability practitioners are recognising the need for innovative procedures to incorporate usability in ...
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Usability

2005
This is a brief review of the history of usability and a discussion of usability in developing a computer-based learning program (CBLP). According to ISO 9241, usability is defined as the extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a specified context of use ...
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Apparent usability vs. inherent usability

Conference companion on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '95, 1995
Masaaki Kurosu, Kaori Kashimura
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Usability and Usability Testing

2017
Emily Geisen, Jennifer Romano Bergstrom
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