Glossary

Popular Glossary Terms

• time-stamping

  in various approaches to recording and logging user behavior, time s…

• pilot test

  or formative test; an initial run of a study (e.g. an experiment, surv…

• psychology of programming

  PoP; the study of how programmers create software, including such to…

• Gantt chart

  a diagram used in project management, where the x axis is time and the y…

• edutainment / infotainment

  an approach to education that frames the instructional material in t…

• autosave

  a software feature that saves the file periodically while the user wo…

• fail-safe

  a property of a device or system that inherently prevents certain fai…

• mental model

  Humans establish mental models of how things work, or how they would b…