Usability engineering

John M. Carroll; Mary Beth Rosson

doi:10.1201/b16768

Usability engineering

John M. Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson

College of Information Sciences and Technology

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The essence of usability as a software development goal is that tools and systems can be designed to facilitate and enhance desirable experiences for their users-ease, transparency, engagement, fun, usefulness, self-efficacy, satisfaction-as well as to mitigate undesirable experiences, such as confusion, frustration, anger, disappointment, lack of confidence, and so forth. Usability is a nonfunctional requirement in that it describes the criteria for assessing the quality of a system beyond merely specifying the functions that the system performs, its functional requirements.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Computing Handbook, Third Edition
Subtitle of host publication	Information Systems and Information Technology
Publisher	CRC Press
Pages	32-1-32-22
ISBN (Electronic)	9781439898567
ISBN (Print)	9781439898543
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1201/b16768
State	Published - Jan 1 2014

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General Mathematics
General Computer Science

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