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Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: Empowering people
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Pages: 249 - 256
Year of Publication: 1990
ISBN:0-201-50932-6
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Jakob Nielsen
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Technical University of Denmark, Department of Computer Science, DK-2800 Lyngby Copenhagen, Denmark
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Rolf Molich
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Baltica A/S, Mail Code B22, Klausdalsbrovej 601, DK-2750 Ballerup, Denmark
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ABSTRACT
Heuristic evaluation is an informal method of usability analysis where a number of evaluators are presented with an interface design and asked to comment on it. Four experiments showed that individual evaluators were mostly quite bad at doing such heuristic evaluations and that they only found between 20 and 51% of the usability problems in the interfaces they evaluated. On the other hand, we could aggregate the evaluations from several evaluators to a single evaluation and such aggregates do rather well, even when they consist of only three to five people.
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