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Usability Glossary: Search Results


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Click each category to see its contents or click each term for a full definition. There are 88 matching categories and 1120 matching terms found. Displaying matching terms 1 through 20.

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Terms

term   definition

Likert scale

a type of survey question where respondents are asked to rat ...

sitemap

a representation of the organization of a website, usually i ...

Fitts' Law

T = k log2(D/S + 0.5), k ~ 10 ...

task analysis

a set of methods for decomposing people's tasks in order to ...

Hick's Law

(1) H = log2(n + 1).
(2) ...

breadcrumbs

on websites, a form of navigation where the current location ...

semantic differential

a type of survey question where respondents are asked to rat ...

cognitive modeling

producing a computational model for how people perform tasks ...

survey

a technique for gathering information from a large number of ...

information visualization

the study of how to effectively present information visually ...

GOMS

a family of techniques for modeling and representing the kno ...

Thurstone scale

a way of measuring people's attitudes along a single dimensi ...

user testing

a family of methods for evaluating a user interface by colle ...

prototyping

the development of incomplete representations of a target sy ...

sociogram

a diagram that shows interaction patterns between people; fo ...

information architecture

the organization of information; the field which studies how ...

tree diagram

a visual way of representing hierarchies, commonly used, for ...

affordance

a situation where an object's sensory characteristics intuit ...

Sticky Keys

a method of typing where modifier keys, such as Shift, Contr ...

questionnaire

a form that people fill out, used to obtain demographic info ...

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