Handbook of Usability Engineering /
The objective of this book is to provide sufficient knowledge to its readers about the subject of Usability Engineering.
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| spelling | KOHA-OAI-TEST:5936302022-03-30T03:41:23ZHandbook of Usability Engineering / Welker, Hailie, author 639892 text Electronic books 631902 Delhi, India : World Technologies,2012©2012engThe objective of this book is to provide sufficient knowledge to its readers about the subject of Usability Engineering.Usability engineering is a field that is concerned generally with human-computer interaction and specifically with making human-computer interfaces that have high usability or user friendliness. In effect, a user-friendly interface is one that allows users to effectively and efficiently accomplish the tasks for which it was designed and one that users rate positively on opinion or emotional scales. Assessing the usability of an interface and recommending ways to improve it is the purview of the Usability Engineer. The largest subsets of Usability Engineers work to improve usability of software graphical user interfaces (GUIs), web-based user interfaces, and voice user interfaces (VUIs). Several broad disciplines including Psychology, Human Factors and Cognitive Science subsume usability engineering, but the theoretical foundations of the field come from more specific domains: human perception and action; human cognition; behavioral research methodologies; and, to a lesser extent, quantitative and statistical analysis techniques. When usability engineering began to emerge as a distinct area of professional practice in the mid- to late 1980s, many usability engineers had a background in Computer Science or in a sub-field of Psychology such as Perception, Cognition or Human Factors. Today, these academic areas still serve as springboards for the professional practitioner of usability engineering, but Cognitive Science departments and academic programs in Human-Computer Interaction now also produce their share of practitioners in the field. The term usability engineering (in contrast to interaction design and user experience design) implies more of a focus on assessing and making recommendations to improve usability than it does on design, though Usability Engineers may still engage in design to some extent, particularly design of wire-frames or other prototypes.Chapter 1 - Usability Engineering -- Chapter 2 - Cognitive Walkthrough and Heuristic Evaluation -- Chapter 3 - User Interface Design -- Chapter 4 - Card Sorting and Cognitive Dimensions of Notations -- Chapter 5 - Look and Feel & Partial Concurrent Thinking Aloud -- Chapter 6 - Personalization -- Chapter 7 - Progressive Enhancement -- Chapter 8 - Seven Stages of Action -- Chapter 9 - Spatial File Manager -- Chapter 10 - User-Centered Design -- Chapter 11 - Web Accessibility -- Chapter 12 - Persona (Marketing) and Affordance -- Chapter 13 - Eye Tracking -- Chapter 14 - Interaction Design.The objective of this book is to provide sufficient knowledge to its readers about the subject of Usability Engineering.Usability engineering is a field that is concerned generally with human-computer interaction and specifically with making human-computer interfaces that have high usability or user friendliness. In effect, a user-friendly interface is one that allows users to effectively and efficiently accomplish the tasks for which it was designed and one that users rate positively on opinion or emotional scales. Assessing the usability of an interface and recommending ways to improve it is the purview of the Usability Engineer. The largest subsets of Usability Engineers work to improve usability of software graphical user interfaces (GUIs), web-based user interfaces, and voice user interfaces (VUIs). Several broad disciplines including Psychology, Human Factors and Cognitive Science subsume usability engineering, but the theoretical foundations of the field come from more specific domains: human perception and action; human cognition; behavioral research methodologies; and, to a lesser extent, quantitative and statistical analysis techniques. When usability engineering began to emerge as a distinct area of professional practice in the mid- to late 1980s, many usability engineers had a background in Computer Science or in a sub-field of Psychology such as Perception, Cognition or Human Factors. Today, these academic areas still serve as springboards for the professional practitioner of usability engineering, but Cognitive Science departments and academic programs in Human-Computer Interaction now also produce their share of practitioners in the field. The term usability engineering (in contrast to interaction design and user experience design) implies more of a focus on assessing and making recommendations to improve usability than it does on design, though Usability Engineers may still engage in design to some extent, particularly design of wire-frames or other prototypes.PSZ_JBUser-centered system designCognitive dimensionsEngineeringEngineeringhttp://repository.library.utm.my/2604URN:ISBN:9788132341611Remote access restricted to users with a valid UTM ID via VPN. |
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