A usability-evaluation metric based on a soft-computing approach

Usability of software should measure both the user preference and user performance. The notion of usability involves several dimensions. These dimensions include: system feedback, consistency, error prevention, performance/efficiency, user like/dislike, and error recovery. Each of these dimensions i...

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Main Authors: Chang, Elizabeth, Dillon, Tharam S.
Format: Journal Article
Published: IEEE Computer Society 2006
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44707
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description Usability of software should measure both the user preference and user performance. The notion of usability involves several dimensions. These dimensions include: system feedback, consistency, error prevention, performance/efficiency, user like/dislike, and error recovery. Each of these dimensions is characterized by fuzzy aspects and linguistic terms. This paper develops a model for each of the dimensions using fuzzy-set theory. It then uses the Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy-inference approach for developing an overall measure of usability. Results are presented for several different user interfaces.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-447072017-02-27T15:15:03Z A usability-evaluation metric based on a soft-computing approach Chang, Elizabeth Dillon, Tharam S. usability fuzzy systems user interfaces Usability of software should measure both the user preference and user performance. The notion of usability involves several dimensions. These dimensions include: system feedback, consistency, error prevention, performance/efficiency, user like/dislike, and error recovery. Each of these dimensions is characterized by fuzzy aspects and linguistic terms. This paper develops a model for each of the dimensions using fuzzy-set theory. It then uses the Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy-inference approach for developing an overall measure of usability. Results are presented for several different user interfaces. 2006 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44707 IEEE Computer Society fulltext
spellingShingle usability
fuzzy systems
user interfaces
Chang, Elizabeth
Dillon, Tharam S.
A usability-evaluation metric based on a soft-computing approach
title A usability-evaluation metric based on a soft-computing approach
title_full A usability-evaluation metric based on a soft-computing approach
title_fullStr A usability-evaluation metric based on a soft-computing approach
title_full_unstemmed A usability-evaluation metric based on a soft-computing approach
title_short A usability-evaluation metric based on a soft-computing approach
title_sort usability-evaluation metric based on a soft-computing approach
topic usability
fuzzy systems
user interfaces
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44707