Comparative evaluation of usability tests

  • Authors:
  • Rolf Molich;Ann Damgaard Thomsen;Barbara Karyukina;Lars Schmidt;Meghan Ede;Wilma van Oel;Meeta Arcuri

  • Affiliations:
  • DialogDesign, Stenlose, Denmark;Kommunedata, Ballerup, Denmark;SGI, Chippewa Falls, WI;Networkers, København Ø, Denmark;Sun Microsystems, Inc., Menlo Park, CA;P5, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Hotmail, Microsoft Corporation, San Jose, CA

  • Venue:
  • CHI '99 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Seven professional usability labs and one university student team have carried out independent, parallel usability tests of the same state-of-the-art, live, commercial web site. The web site used for the usability tests is www.hotmail.com, a major provider of free web-based e-mail. The panel will discuss similarities and differences in process, results and reporting.