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Common Industry Specification for Usability --Requirements

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Author(s)

Mary F. Theofanos

Abstract

.The Common Industry Specification for Usability - Requirements (CISU-R) helps usability professionals, product managers, and others working in product design and development to create usability requirements. It sets standards for specifying usability requirements, which include three types of information: ¿{The context of use: the intended users, their goals and tasks, associated equipment, and the physical and social environment in which the product can be used. ¿{Performance and satisfaction criteria: measures of usability for the product. ¿{The test method and context of testing: the method to be used to test whether the usability requirements have been met and the context in which the measurements will be made.
Citation
NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR) - 7432
Report Number
7432

Keywords

Usability, requirements, performance measurment, satisfaction

Citation

Theofanos, M. (2007), Common Industry Specification for Usability --Requirements, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=51179 (Accessed April 18, 2024)
Created June 13, 2007, Updated April 4, 2019