A Practical Guide to Usability Testing (HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION) - Hardcover

Dumas, Joseph S.; Redish, Janice C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 089391990X ISBN 13: 9780893919900

Publisher: Ablex Pub, 1993

Synopsis

In A Practical Guide to Usability Testing, the authors begin by defining usability, advocating and explaining the methods of usability engineering and reviewing many techniques for assessing and assuring usability throughout the development process. They then take you through all the steps in planning and conducting a usability test, analyzing data, and using the results to improve both products and processes.
Written in plain English and filled with examples from many types of products and tests, A Practical Guide to Usability Testing discusses the full range of testing options from quick studies with a few subjects to more formal tests with carefully designed controls. The authors discuss the place of usability laboratories in testing as well as the skills you need to conduct a test. Included are forms that you can use or modify to conduct a usability test and layouts of existing labs that will help you build your own.
The authors, a human factors psychologist and a linguist, have extensive experience conducting research on usability, doing usability testing, helping companies set up usability labs and programs, and teaching usability engineering and testing.

About this title

About the Author

Joseph S. Dumas is a chief scientist at American Institutes for Research. Janice C. Redish is president of Redish & Associates, Inc. in Bethesda, Maryland.

Review

A terrific update to a terrific book. This thoughtful and thorough work will push readers along quickly to successful and effective usability studies." -- Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland

This book has much advice to give...raising a host of issues about digital products that we need to address from our own experience and from our own values. -- Digital Creativity, Vol.10, No.2

Edition details

• Publisher: Ablex Pub
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 089391990X
• ISBN 13: 9780893919900
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 412