Heuristic evaluation is a more rapid form of usability test which may be deployed by developers, perhaps prior to carrying out usability tests.
There has been a rapid increase in research evaluating usability of Augmented Reality (AR) systems in recent years.
This paper examines the usability of the Rapid Impact Assessment Matrix (RIAM) as a tool to prioritize project proposals for small scale water restoration projects in relation to proposals' potential to improve the environment.
Our study goal was to evaluate the usability of polymer rapid prototypes compared to the standard cobalt-chromium alloy prostheses for patellofemoral joint research.
Service composition allows for extremely rapid software development and high re-usability of development results.
As a start in this direction, the US Department of Veteran Affairs has established a usability laboratory to support the rapid prototyping of new health IT designs, formal usability testing and the development of analysis tools to assess existing technologies.
Compared with the rapid development of the HIT industry in China, usability research in HIT in China is very underdeveloped.
Despite the rapid growth in wood pellet heating, the suitability and usability of wood pellet boilers in domestic settings has received relatively little attention compared with either alternative renewable heating technologies or with commercial applications of biomass heating.
"A major difference we have very experienced in-house dev team… The experience of this team has helped to build a messenger that really can compete in usability with WhatsApp that is reflected in our rapid adoption and usage numbers".
The employed methods are a literature scan and discussion in the contextual inquiry; interviews, rapid prototyping and a requirement session in the value specification stage; and user-based usability evaluation, expert-based usability inspection and a requirement session in the design stage.
