General description

Only for the HTI students starting in Master's degree studies in UTA or TUT.

Note, this course can not be taken if student has done the course TIEVA30 Methods of Usablity Engineering: Usability Evaluation Methods or VTEKA206 Usability Evaluation Methods.

Learning outcomes

After taking this course the student
- is familiar with different usability evaluation methods and knows how to use them during the product development process,
- understands major ethical considerations of usability studies,
- knows how to carry out a heuristic evaluation and a usability test in a laboratory, and write a usability test plan and report the findings,
- has participated in a hands-on usability evaluation project which is carried out as team work,
- knows how to carry out a usability test of a given product using good practices,
- has developed team work skills needed in working life.

Contents

The importance of usability evaluation in different stages of the of product development, the influence of different types of user interfaces and user groups in the selection of the methods, ethical considerations in usability studies, heuristic evaluation, usability evaluation in the lab, making a test plan, conducting usability tests, analyzing and reporting, team work skills.

Teaching methods

Evaluation

Belongs to following study modules

2013–2014

Teaching

Archived Teaching Schedule. Please refer to current Teaching Shedule.

TIEVS81/TIEVA30 Usability Evaluation Methods