Glossary

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• CRT

  cathode ray tube; the traditional technology used for televisions a…

• HCI

  human-computer interaction. The study of how people work with compu…

• vigilance task

  a type of task where a user must maintain attention on the task while wa…

• informed consent

  permission from a participant in a user study to participate and to ha…

• card sorting

  a technique for uncovering the hierarchical structure in a set of con…

• external validity

  the degree to which the results of a study can safely be generalized to…

• RGB

  red-green-blue; a common color model used especially in CRTs which s…

• yoozability

  “yoozability” is not the correct spelling of “u…