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Encyclopedia: Usability

Usability is a term used to denote the ease with which people can employ a particular tool or other human-made object in order to achieve a particular goal. Usability can also refer to the methods of measuring usability and the study of the principles behind an object's perceived efficiency or elegance.

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How to say "Usability" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	優使性
	(Japanese)	ユーザビリティ
	(German)	Benutzerfreundlichkeit
	(Spanish)	Usabilidad
	(French)	Utilisabilité
	(Italian)	Usabilità

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Jakob Nielsen

Jakob Nielsen (mathematician) Jakob Nielsen (usability consultant...

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Jakob Nielsen (usability consultant)

and web-design usability. He earned a Ph.D. in user interface design and computer science from the... computer company Sun Microsystems. He subsequently co-founded usability consulting company Nielsen Norman Group with fellow usability expert Donald Norman. Jakob Nielsen is generally regarded as the...

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ISO 9241

ISO 9241 is a standard for web site usability. As of 1 February 2004, it was not yet published...

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Klystron tube

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Nuclear reprocessing

Nuclear reprocessing separates any usable nuclear fuels (e.g., uranium and plutonium) from fission products and other materials in used reactor fuels. The usable nuclear fuels can then reused in power plants. The fission products can either be sent to a nuclear waste repository or separated...

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Heuristic evaluation

A heuristic evaluation is a usability testing method that helps to identify usability problems in... judging its compliance with recognized usability principles (the "heuristics"). The main goal of heuristic... about usability engineering. Heuristic evaluations are one of the most informal method of usability...

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Diazotrophs

Diazotrophs are organisms that 'fix' atmospheric nitrogen in to a more usable form such as ammonia. Examples of organisms that do this are rhizobia and Frankia (in symbiosis) and Azospirillum (free living...

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Nielsen

Name; originally used as a surname meaning "son of Niels". Akin to Nilsen, Nilsson, etc. See also Carl Nielsen, Danish composer Jakob Nielsen, Danish-American usability consultant Jakob Nielsen, Danish mathematician Nielsen Ratings...

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Human-computer interaction/usability lab

A usability lab is an environment where users are studied interacting with a system for the sake of evaluating the system's usability. Typically, the user sits in front of a personal computer, alongside a facilitator who gives the user tasks to perform. Behind a one-way mirror, a number of...

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