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Title: Advancing Usability Evaluation through Human Reliability Analysis

Abstract

This paper introduces a novel augmentation to the current heuristic usability evaluation methodology. The SPAR-H human reliability analysis method was developed for categorizing human performance in nuclear power plants. Despite the specialized use of SPAR-H for safety critical scenarios, the method also holds promise for use in commercial off-the-shelf software usability evaluations. The SPAR-H method shares task analysis underpinnings with human-computer interaction, and it can be easily adapted to incorporate usability heuristics as performance shaping factors. By assigning probabilistic modifiers to heuristics, it is possible to arrive at the usability error probability (UEP). This UEP is not a literal probability of error but nonetheless provides a quantitative basis to heuristic evaluation. When combined with a consequence matrix for usability errors, this method affords ready prioritization of usability issues.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
911609
Report Number(s):
INL/CON-05-00108
TRN: US0800040
DOE Contract Number:  
DE-AC07-99ID-13727
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Human Computer Interaction International 2005,Las Vegas, NV,07/25/2005,07/28/2005
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
99 - GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; COMPUTERS; EVALUATION; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; SAFETY; human performance; human reliability analysis

Citation Formats

Boring, Ronald L, and Gertman, David I. Advancing Usability Evaluation through Human Reliability Analysis. United States: N. p., 2005. Web.
Boring, Ronald L, & Gertman, David I. Advancing Usability Evaluation through Human Reliability Analysis. United States.
Boring, Ronald L, and Gertman, David I. 2005. "Advancing Usability Evaluation through Human Reliability Analysis". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/911609.
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abstractNote = {This paper introduces a novel augmentation to the current heuristic usability evaluation methodology. The SPAR-H human reliability analysis method was developed for categorizing human performance in nuclear power plants. Despite the specialized use of SPAR-H for safety critical scenarios, the method also holds promise for use in commercial off-the-shelf software usability evaluations. The SPAR-H method shares task analysis underpinnings with human-computer interaction, and it can be easily adapted to incorporate usability heuristics as performance shaping factors. By assigning probabilistic modifiers to heuristics, it is possible to arrive at the usability error probability (UEP). This UEP is not a literal probability of error but nonetheless provides a quantitative basis to heuristic evaluation. When combined with a consequence matrix for usability errors, this method affords ready prioritization of usability issues.},
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year = {Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2005},
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