Impact of characteristics of individuals on evaluating the quantitative studies

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  • Patrik Hlavac
چکیده

Usability studies in the web domain are based on various metrics, but the question is how to apply these metrics to evaluate a larger group of people. When we consider that every user has different qualities, skills and experiences, we could expect that the results of testing of same scenarios will be different. We aim our research to show that quantitative studies can provide more accurate results if we work with information about personal characteristics of participants. We have already conducted a preliminary controlled experiment on a small sample of participants, which explores influence of a web literacy.

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تاریخ انتشار 2016