Commentary: Usability – A Sensitizing Concept
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Commentary: Usability – A Sensitizing Concept. / Hertzum, Morten.
In: Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2018, p. 178-181.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Commentary: Usability – A Sensitizing Concept
AU - Hertzum, Morten
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - In his article “The Usability Construct: A Dead End?”, Tractinsky (in Human-Computer Interaction) contends that for scientific research on usability to progress, the usability construct should be unbundled and replaced by well-defined constructs. This contention is presented as the conclusion that follows naturally from taking a scientist’s viewpoint on usability. Similar calls for definitive concepts – constructs in Tractinsky’s terminology – have been made in other scientific fields with concepts as ambiguous as that of usability. But counterarguments have also been presented.
AB - In his article “The Usability Construct: A Dead End?”, Tractinsky (in Human-Computer Interaction) contends that for scientific research on usability to progress, the usability construct should be unbundled and replaced by well-defined constructs. This contention is presented as the conclusion that follows naturally from taking a scientist’s viewpoint on usability. Similar calls for definitive concepts – constructs in Tractinsky’s terminology – have been made in other scientific fields with concepts as ambiguous as that of usability. But counterarguments have also been presented.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - usability
KW - sensitizing concepts
U2 - 10.1080/07370024.2017.1302800
DO - 10.1080/07370024.2017.1302800
M3 - Journal article
VL - 33
SP - 178
EP - 181
JO - Human-Computer Interaction
JF - Human-Computer Interaction
SN - 0737-0024
IS - 2
ER -
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