Barefoot usability evaluations

作者: Anders Bruun , Jan Stage

DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2014.883552

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摘要: Usability evaluations provide software development teams with insights on the degree to which a application enables user achieve his/her goals, how fast these goals can be achieved, easy it is learn and satisfactory in use. Although usability are crucial process of developing systems high level usability, their use still limited context small companies. Several approaches have been proposed support practitioners (SWPs) conducting this paper presents two in-depth empirical studies supporting SWPs by training them become barefoot evaluators. Findings show that after 30 hours obtained considerable abilities identifying problems approach revealed downstream utility. Results also created relaxed conditions for test users when acting as monitors but ex...

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