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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

1. Introduction

Author : Marc Halbrügge

Published in: Predicting User Performance and Errors

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In this chapter:
  • What is usability, why is it important?
  • The dilemma of maintaining usability for multi-target systems
  • How model-based development help creating multi-target systems
  • Research direction: Can the model-based approach help to predict the usability of such systems as well?

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Footnotes
1
See Reason (2016) for examples like commonly designed drop-down lists leading to false medical prescription leading to overdose and patient death.
 
2
Numbers for Germany to justify the use of the word “explosion”: In 2010, there were 80.7 stationary and 57.8 mobile personal computers (PC) per 100 households. In 2015, the number of mobile computers has more than doubled (133.2 per 100 households, 39.1 thereof being tablets) while the number of stationary computers slightly declined to 63.1 (Statistisches Bundesamt 2016).
 
Metadata
Title
Introduction
Author
Marc Halbrügge
Copyright Year
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60369-8_1