A tale of two studies

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dc.contributor.authorBowen, Judy
dc.contributor.authorReeves, Steve
dc.contributor.authorSchweer, Andrea
dc.coverage.spatialConference held at Melbourne, Australiaen_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-22T22:50:11Z
dc.date.available2014-01-22T22:50:11Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractRunning user evaluation studies is a useful way of getting feedback on partially or fully implemented software systems. Unlike hypothesis-based testing (where specific design decisions can be tested or comparisons made between design choices) the aim is to find as many problems (both usability and functional) as possible prior to implementation or release. It is particularly useful in small-scale development projects that may lack the resources and expertise for other types of usability testing. Developing a user-study that successfully and efficiently performs this task is not always straightforward however. It may not be obvious how to decide what the participants should be asked to do in order to explore as many parts of the system’s interface as possible. In addition, ad hoc approaches to such study development may mean the testing is not easily repeatable on subsequent implementations or updates, and also that particular areas of the software may not be evaluated at all. In this paper we describe two (very different) approaches to designing an evaluation study for the same piece of software and discuss both the approaches taken, the differing results found and our comments on both of these.en_NZ
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dc.identifier.citationBowen, J., Reeves, S., & Schweer, A. (2013). A tale of two studies. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Australasian Under Interface Conference (AUIC2013), Adelaide, Australia, 29 January - 1 February 2013. (pp. 81-89).en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/8425
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.publisherACSen_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOfProc 14th Australasian User Interface Conferenceen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttp://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV139Bowen.pdfen_NZ
dc.rightsCopyright © 2013, Australian Computer Society, Inc. This paper appeared at the Fourteenth Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC 2013), Adelaide, Australia. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT), Vol. , Ross T. Smith and Burkhard Wuensche, Ed.en_NZ
dc.sourceAUIC 2013en_NZ
dc.subjectcomputer scienceen_NZ
dc.subjectusability studiesen_NZ
dc.subjectevaluationen_NZ
dc.subjectUI Designen_NZ
dc.subjectformal modelsen_NZ
dc.titleA tale of two studiesen_NZ
dc.typeConference Contributionen_NZ
pubs.begin-page81en_NZ
pubs.elements-id22958
pubs.end-page89en_NZ
pubs.finish-date2013-02-01en_NZ
pubs.place-of-publicationAustraliaen_NZ
pubs.start-date2013-01-29en_NZ
pubs.volumeCRPIT 139en_NZ
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