Usability Engineering of Virtual Environments
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Usability engineering, described rather simplistically, is the process by which usability is ensured for an interactive application, at all phases in the development process. These phases include user task analysis, user class analysis, design of the user interaction, rapid prototyping, user-centered evaluation, and iterative re-design based on evaluation results. Usability engineering includes both design and evaluations with users; it is not just applicable at the evaluation phase. Usability engineering is not typically structured hypothesis-testing-based experimentation.
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