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The evaluation of user interface quality may be important to everyone for different reasons. It is not easy to judge usability in general, and learnability in particular, objectively, however; both can have a dramatic effect on user performances. In this paper, problems in evaluation have been considered. Some solutions are suggested and a mathematical technique to measure learning times is included.
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Acar, B.S. (1994). User Interface Quality and Evaluating Ease of Use. In: Schmid, F., Evans, S., Ainger, A.W.S., Grieve, R.J. (eds) Computer Integrated Production Systems and Organizations. NATO ASI Series, vol 134. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57895-3_23
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