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Task Design: Its Impact on Usability Testing

Published: 08 June 2008 Publication History

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Usability testing is a technique for measuring a system's usability. It consists of a number of variables such as tasks, number of users, evaluators, and other elements. This paper explores the proposal that task design can seriously influence the usability testing results. It describes how two different types of task affect results. The types explored are structured tasks and uncertain tasks. Each type of task seems to discover different types of problems. In addition, in this research, the magic number of "five users" fails to achieve the promised 85% of usability problems.

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ICIW '08: Proceedings of the 2008 Third International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services
June 2008
725 pages
ISBN:9780769531632

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IEEE Computer Society

United States

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Published: 08 June 2008

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  1. structured tasks
  2. tasks
  3. uncertain tasks
  4. usability testing

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  • (2024)SimUser: Generating Usability Feedback by Simulating Various Users Interacting with Mobile ApplicationsProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3642481(1-17)Online publication date: 11-May-2024

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