Interaction Walkthrough: A usability evaluation method for critical systems

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  • Harold Thimbleby
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Usability evaluation methods are a battery of techniques for assessing the usability of interactive systems or of proposed interactive systems. This paper describes an additional evaluation method, most appropriate for evaluating safety critical and high quality user interfaces. The method can also be used for informing HCI research. The method is applied when a specification is available of the interactive system under evaluation, or when the system (or part of it) is working. This paper furnishes a worked example.

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تاریخ انتشار 2006