Usability Evaluation Flashcards

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Formative Evaluations

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Evaluations conducted during design.

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Summative Evaluations

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Evaluations that are carried out to assess the success of a finished product.

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Usability testing

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Evaluating user interfaces by collecting data using a combination of methods in a controlled setting.

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Cognitive walk-through

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Simulating a user’s problem-solving process at each step.

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Analytics

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A technique for logging and analyzing data.

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Web analytics

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The measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of internet data to understand and optimize web usage.

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Fitt’s law

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Predict the time it takes to reach a target using a pointing device.

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Reliability

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How well a method produces the same results on separate occasions under the same circumstances,

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Validity

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Whether the evaluation method measures what it is intended to measure.

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Ecological validity

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A particular kind of validity that concerns how the environment in which an evaluation is conducted influences or even distorts the results.

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Bias

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Occurs when the results are distorted.

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Scope

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How much the evaluation findings can be generalized.

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