USABILITY ENGINEERING NOTES FOR PUNE UNIVERSITY

What is Usability?
Usability refers to the quality of a user's experience when interacting with products or systems, including websites, software, devices, or applications. Usability is about effectiveness, efficiency and the overall satisfaction of the user.

Here i am providing notes of Usability Engineering for Pune University. The notes contain on the following syllabus mention bellow:

UNIT 4 - USABILITY EVALUATION

Developing usability specifications for evaluation - case study, criteria for user feedback techniques, formative and summative techniques of evaluation.
Usability Inspections (testing without users) -> heuristic evaluation, user-interface guideline reviews, cognitive walkthrough, model-based analysis.
Usability Testing (testing with users) -> developing usability or test specifications with case study , test goals and test plans , getting test users, choosing experimenters, ethical aspects of tests with human subjects, test tasks, stages of a test, performance measurement, thinking-aloud testing, usability laboratories, remote evaluation.
Methods beyond testing -> observation, user satisfaction questionnaire (rating scale), interviews, system usability scale (SUS), focus groups, logging actual use, user feedback, choosing a methods.

UNIT 5 - USER INTERFACE AND USABILITY STANDARDS

User benefits, vendor benefits, dangers of standards, principles of good UI design, nationalinternational standards, internationalization - international GUI, guidelines for internationalization , localization and multilocale interfaces, UI standards - control standards, window standards, dialog box standards, message box standards, device interaction standards, feedback standards, developing style guides and toolkits , user documentation- manuals, tutorials, information in the interface.

UNIT 6 - RECENT ADVANCE AND TRENDS

Theoretical solutions, technological solutions, CAUSE tools, emerging paradigms of user interactioncollaborative systems, ubiquitous computing , intelligent user-interfaces , simulation and virtual reality , case study , usability issues in organizations- case studies , organizational roles and structures , ethics of usability, web analytics.

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