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1. Introduction

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Abstract

Classical usability and user-experience testing involve a thorough and systematic evaluation of the system that is under evaluation. This may be done with user-centric, or expert-centric methods [10, p. 24]. The goal of such an evaluation is usually to test if a system acts as expected and meets the requirements that its users have [8, p. 319].

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Footnotes
1
In fact, interaction with Clippit might be a common situation for many users, where they experienced state reactance.
 
2
“The extent to which a system, product or service can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a specified context of use” [11].
 
3
Ease of use is a measurement of how easy a technical system is to use by its users.
 
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Metadata
Title
Introduction
Author
Patrick Ehrenbrink
Copyright Year
2020
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30310-5_1