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What is Learnability

Interactivity and the Future of the Human-Computer Interface
The quality of allowing users to easily become familiar with something.
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What-If Analysis on the Evaluation of User Interface Usability
Saulo Silva (University of Minho, Portugal), Mariana Carvalho (University of Minho, Portugal), and Orlando Belo (University of Minho, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2637-8.ch003
Abstract
While interactive systems have the potential to increase human work performance, those systems are predisposed to usability problems. Different factors might contribute to these problems during the interaction process and as result, the decision-making process might be compromised. This work uses decision support system methods and tools to assist in the analysis of the usability of a university library website, measuring the constructs of effectiveness, efficiency, and learnability. The pilot study involved thirty-five subjects, and after collecting data, a multidimensional view of the data is created and discussed. Later, a What-if analysis is used to investigate the impact of different scenarios on system-use. The work has the potential to assist designers and system administrators at improving their systems.
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Evaluating Usability to Improve Efficiency in E-Learning Programs
Degree of effort employed to achieve a level of competence in completing a task. A system is considered easy to learn if competencies required to use it are acquired after only a few repetitions of the task. The term “learnability” is widely used in the usability field sometimes as a synonym of “usability”. It is fundamental to make the distinction between the usability of a product as it is being used for the first time and usability when referring to more or less expert users.
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Heuristically Evaluating Web-Based ODL
The degree to which a system can transfer knowledge in a natural way. “Natural” in this context is the way the user is used to acquire the knowledge.
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Usability Evaluation of E-Learning Systems
Learnability is defined as the ease and speed with which the users get familiar with the use of a new product. With high learnability, users can intuitively learn to use a product without training or manuals. However, in the context of e-learning, the definition of learnability includes the ability of users to effectively learn and retain the skills and knowledge.
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Evaluating the Usability Maturity of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
Refers to the capability of a software product to enable the user to learn how to use it.
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Usability Evaluation of Digital Library
Learnability is measured by the learning effort of using a new system.
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