Usability Engineering: Scenario-Based Development of Human-Computer Interaction
Provides a different and essential perspective of advancing and analyzing the development of interactive systems.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Usability Engineering: Scenario-Based Development of Human-Computer Interaction
Glossary
- action plan
- a sequence of actions selected to achieve a goal
- activities
- the collective ventures that provide context and meaning for people's interactions with computers and other tools
- activity design
- the first phase of reasoning about a new software system, in which the problems and opportunities of current practice are transformed into new ways of behaving
- affective computing
- the study and design ofuser interfaces that explicitly engage and respond to people's emotions or affective experiences
- affordance
- perceptual characteristics of an object that make it obvious what the object can do and how it can be manipulated
- analytic method
- usability evaluation based on a careful analysis or theoretical modeling of user interface features, usually carried out by usability experts
- anthropomorphism
- considering machines (especially computers) as if they have human capabilities or responsibilities
- area
- a gestalt perceptual principle stating that visual elements are likely to be grouped so as to create larger structures with the smallest possible areas
- articulation work
- the collaborative effort required to document, exchange, schedule, refine, and otherwise coordinate shared activities
- articulatory directness
- the extent to which the physical behaviors carried out with a user interface map to the goals and intentions of the user's current task
- artifact
- a designed object or tool used in support of an activity
- assistance policy
- a predetemined set of rules that usability evaluators develop and apply to decide when and how to intervene during a usability test
- asynchronous collaboration
- computer-mediated shared activity that does not take place in real time
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