usability testing

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Qualitative Marketing Research Through Usability Testing

November 30, 2008 12:00am PST

Usability is an attribute of any good product, just as its functionality. It refers mainly to the utility of a product for its indented users, as well as to its ease of use. And whilst a correct...

Provided by: Universitatea din Oradea

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Overcoming Mobile Usability Testing Hurdles: A Mobile Payments Case Study

May 17, 2007 12:00am PDT

For many, the idea of using a mobile phone for day-to-day payments seems like a far-off fantasy. However, mobile payments are certainly nothing new. By 1999, PayPal, iMode, and Nordea had all...

Provided by: Usability Professionals' Association

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Usability Testing for Secure Device Pairing in Home Networks

July 21, 2007 12:00am PDT

Setting up a secure communication channel between wireless devices is a crucial part of secure communications. Usually, it is done by non-expert user's with-out knowledge or interest in security...

Provided by: Helsinki University of Technology

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Assessing Effectiveness in Mobile Learning by Devising MLUAT (Mobile Learning Usability Attribute Testing) Methodology

July 5, 2011 12:00am PDT

Mobile learning has been investigated from a range of perspectives, but there are little published research studies on usability of m-learning and its efficiency. Therefore investigated and...

Provided by: South East European University

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Defining And Testing EMR Usability: Principles And Proposed Methods Of EMR Usability Evaluation And Rating

June 1, 2009 12:00am PDT

Electronic medical record (EMR) adoption rates have been slower than expected in the United States, especially in comparison to other industry sectors and other developed countries. Usability is...

Provided by: Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society

Articles

Effective and affordable User testing

June 3, 2008 3:55pm PDT

At the recent Web Directions South UX conference in Melbourne, Lisa Herrod, the Principal Usability consultant at Scenario Seven offered advice on usability testing with her presentation -- "User...

Articles

Simple, cost-effective intranet usability testing

January 22, 2003 8:00am PST

You can do usability tests on your clients' intranets without a big budget. Get advice from the director of research at Nielsen Norman Group on conducting and evaluating intranet usability testing...

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What works and what doesn't inside Google's labs (photos)

October 14, 2010 9:00pm PDT

After all the code is written, product developers put their visions to the test in front of real people inside the Google Usability Testing Labs.

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Articles

System testing to validate documentation, training, and usability

October 2, 2001 7:00am PDT

System tests don't stop with the technology. Your programs should be usable and well documented--and don't forget the user training. Learn about how system testing plays into these aspects of your...

Blog Posts

Simple usability testing is easy with Optimal Workshop's tools

March 3, 2009 5:13am PST

If you've considered doing usability testing in-house but don't know where to start, check out Optimal Workshop's Chalkmark and Treejack. These easy-to-use tools may be especially attractive if...

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Blog Posts

Are you doing enough usability engineering and testing?

February 5, 2009 5:34am PST

How well is your development team baking in usability engineering and testing into your applications? Take this poll to let us know.

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Software

Usability 1.0.1 (Mobile)

June 14, 2011 12:00am PDT

Usability is a companion app to IntuitionHQ.com - a quick, easy online usability testing service. Please note, to use the app, you need to have published tests on the IntuitionHQ.com website, and...

Provided by: Boost New Media

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Usability 1.0.1 (Mobile)

June 14, 2011 12:00am PDT

Usability is a companion app to IntuitionHQ.com - a quick, easy online usability testing service. Please note, to use the app, you need to have published tests on the IntuitionHQ.com website, and...

Provided by: Boost New Media

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Waste gets a workout at energy plant (photos)

December 14, 2009 4:10am PST

Is there a cleaner way to convert garbage into usable energy? Ze-gen's gasification facility is testing a system that gasifies construction debris to make burnable syngas.

Articles

Guerilla usability

August 20, 2001 7:00am PDT

Get advice on setting up a usability test environment for your Web applications.

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Discussion Threads

Simple usability testing is easy with Optimal Workshop's tools

March 3, 2009 6:43am PST

Simple usability testing is easy with Optimal Workshop's tools article root Could this tool help you start to perform usbility tests? Is the availability of a tool like this what you need to get...

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RUST: A Retargetable Usability Testbed for Website Authentication Technologies

March 18, 2008 12:00am PDT

Website authentication technologies attempt to make the identity of a website clear to the user, by supplying information about the identity of the website. In practice however, usability issues...

Provided by: Columbia University

Software

Usability Lab Tool 1.0 (Windows)

October 21, 2002 12:00am PDT

A tool for usability testing of Web sites. Create your usability test scenario with an easy-to-use graphic tool (Study Builder). Invite one or more testers to run your scenario with Usablity tool....

Provided by: HotSpots Design

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Usability Lab Tool 1.0 (Windows)

October 21, 2002 12:00am PDT

A tool for usability testing of Web sites. Create your usability test scenario with an easy-to-use graphic tool (Study Builder). Invite one or more testers to run your scenario with Usablity tool....

Provided by: HotSpots Design

Discussion Threads

Web Application Testing

June 20, 2007 2:16am PDT

Web Application Testing Considering Manual Testing How we can Ensure 1.Reliability 2.Scalability 3.Usability 4.Functionality and 5.Performance of web based application. Web...

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