Moderating Usability Tests: Principles and Practices for Interacting (Interactive Technologies)

Joe Dumas,Beth Loring

ISBN 10: 0123739330 / ISBN 13: 9780123739339

Published by Morgan Kaufmann 2008-02-29, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Moderating Usability Tests: Principles and Practices for Interacting (Interactive Technologies)
• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann 2008-02-29
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0123739330
• ISBN 13: 9780123739339
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Many aspects of usability testing have been thoroughly studied and documented. This isn't true, however, of the details of interacting with the test participants who provide the critical usability data. This omission has meant that there have been no training materials and no principles from which new moderators can learn how to interact. Moderating Usability Tests is the place for new and experienced moderators to learn about the rules and practices for interacting that have never been described in one place before. Authors Dumas and Loring draw on their combined 40 years of usability testing experience to develop and present the most effective principles and practices - both practical and ethical --for moderating successful usability tests. To help usability professionals, students, and novices understand these principles, the authors provide videos from their lab that demonstrate good and poor interaction as well as commentary from a panel of testing experts on why certain techniques succeed or fail. The videos are accessible from the publisher's companion web site.

About the Author

Joe Dumas is a recognized expert in usability evaluation. He has 25 years experience as a usability professional. He as moderated or observed others moderate thousands of usability testing sessions and taught numerous students and usability professionals how to moderate. He is the author of A practical guide to usability testing (with Ginny Redish), Designing user interfaces for software, and numerous articles, both for researchers and practitioners. He is currently a Usability Consultant for Oracle Corporation. He was a Senior Human Factors Specialist at Bentley College’s Design and Usability Center and taught graduate courses in the college’s Human Factors in Information Design Master’s Degree program. He has a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology.