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Re:Usability

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 19, 2004 04:35 PM
Interesting though but not practicable. It is nearly impossible to come from the mouseclicks and the screen to the intentions a user had while performing these interaction steps.
The most powerful instruments in usability labs is the "speaking aloud thought protocol". The "test user" is speaking aloud his thoughts while performing different tasks. So you have to provide an audio track.
But the biggest problem is the amount of data. You need hours to analyze a task solved in minutes.

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