EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Carol Julian
Organization : | KSU
Post Date : | 9/27/2005
Glossary Comments
Glossary Term : | Usability Testing
Definition : |
Comment : | Current: Encompasses a range of methods that examine how users in the target audience actually interact with a system, in contrast to analytic techniques such as usability inspection. Association: human factors, HF: usability Source: Usability First Usability Glossary Change: A method by which users of a product are asked to perform certain tasks in an effort to measure the product's usability. Typically, formative (or diagnostic) usability testing is conducted as part of a product development process and summative (or empirical) testing is conducted after a product is completed. Source: http://www.eac.gov/docs/NIST%20HF%20Reportdated%20wcoverletter.pdf Nature of change: Defined per NIST HF Rpt.