Usability testing is an essential skill for usability practitioners—professionals whose primary
goal is to provide guidance to product developers for the purpose of improving the ease of …

Usability assessment methods evolved from traditional human factors/ergonomics
techniques beginning in the early 1980s. Following a brief historical introduction, we …

Where Testing Occurs......................... 1136Testing in a Lab.............................. 1136What is a
usability lab?..................... 1136Mimicking the operational environment....... 1136The impact …

Usability testing is a widely used technique to evaluate user performance and acceptance of
products and systems. It was introduced in the late 1980s and rose to popularity in the past …

It is all too common for products, such as consumer appliances, information systems, mobile
apps, and websites, to cause trouble and frustration. For example, products are often difficult …

From the Publisher: In A Practical Guide to Usability Testing, the authors begin by defining
usability, advocating and explaining the methods of usability engineering and reviewing …

The philosopher of science JW Grove (1989) once wrote,“There is, of course, nothing
strange or scandalous about divisions of opinion among scientists. This is a condition for …

Usability studies are commonly used in industry and applied in research as a yardstick for
other usability evaluation methods. Though usability studies have been studied extensively …

Usability and user experience (UX) are important concepts in the design and evaluation of
products or systems intended for human use. This chapter introduces the fundamentals of …

How to measure usability is an important question in HCI research and user interface
evaluation. We review current practice in measuring usability by categorizing and discussing …