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Defining Usability Problems

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Pavel Manakhov,

Vyacheslav D. IvanovAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 3144 - 3151

https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2892387

Published: 07 May 2016 Publication History

Abstract

Usability evaluation methods rely, either explicitly or implicitly, on a definition of a usability problem to specify an evaluation scope and a usability problem report format. However, the majority of definitions are vague or fail to capture all relevant phenomena in the scope of human-computer interaction. This paper proposes the elaborate definition of a usability problem to address theoretical issues and guide a problem analysis strategy for various evaluation methods.

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Defining Usability Problems
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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