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Game User-Interface Guidelines: Creating a set of Usability Design Guidelines for the FPS Game User-Interface

open access: yes
This study reports on how usability principles can be implemented into a game development framework for the ingame user interface and head-up display.
Fricker, Helen
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LibGuides Usability Testing: Customizing a Product to Work for Your Users

open access: yes, 2010
After moving subject and class research guides from static html pages to Springshare’s LibGuides system, the University of Washington Libraries investigated how these guides and their built-in features were being understood and used our by students. This
Tawatao, Christine   +3 more
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Principles in Patterns (PiP) : User Acceptance Testing of Course and Class Approval Online Pilot (C-CAP)

open access: yes, 2012
The PiP Evaluation Plan documents four distinct evaluative strands, the first of which entails an evaluation of the PiP system pilot (WP7:37 – Systems & tool evaluation).
Macgregor, George
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Understanding Effects and Determinants of Mobile Support Tools: A Usability-Centered Field Study on IT Service Technicians

open access: yes
The integration of mobile workplaces is a major challenge for companies. First-wave mobile solutions mostly support existing business processes through adding value in terms of increased efficiency.
Thurnher, Bettina, Pousttchi, Key
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Library usability in higher education: how user experience can form library policy

open access: yes
The university library has been called “the heart of a university”, but in the past has been described as being “virtually unusable”. This exploratory study is an investigation into user experience and usability in university libraries in the UK, and ...
Wiles, Alison
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The assessment of usability of electronic shopping: A heuristic evaluation

open access: yesInternational Journal of Information Management, 2005
Today there are thousands of electronic shops accessible via the Web. Some provide user-friendly features whilst others seem not to consider usability factors at all.
Sherry Y Chen, Robert D Macredie
exaly   +2 more sources

Testing for power usability

CHI '97 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems looking to the future - CHI '97, 1997
Usability studies are usually conducted in a compressed time scale (measured in hours) compared with a user's eventual experience with a product (often measured in years). For this reason, typical usability evaluations focus on success during initial interactions with a product (sea for example Dumas & Redish, 1994 and Nielsen & Mack, 1994). Success on
Keith S. Karn   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

On the reliability of usability testing

CHI '01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2001
Six professional usability testing teams conducted a usability test on an early prototype of a dialog box. Altogether, they identified 36 usability problems. No problem was detected by every team, 2 were found by five teams, 4 by four teams, 7 by three teams, 7 by two teams, and 18 problems were identified by one team only.
Martin Kessner   +3 more
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The Problems with Usability Testing

2020
Most books discussing User Experience (UX) or usability often dedicate sections or entire chapters to an introduction to usability testing as a valid and reliable method to identify issues that occur within a given interface or system [e.g., 1, 3, 6, 10].
Peter Gregory Dunn, Alice Hayes
openaire   +1 more source

Remote usability testing

Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, 2009
For increasingly frequent use of library resources by remote users, remote usability testing has become a valuable tool for those who would pursue an empirical, user-centered design of the interfaces to their electronic resources and services. This paper describes our implementation of remote usability tests to evaluate prototypes of a web content ...
Sheng-Cheng Huang   +3 more
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