Sentence examples for summative usability from inspiring English sources
Summative usability testing, taking place at later stages of development, with a partially functional prototype, tends to be more quantitative.
The purpose of this analysis was to conduct summative usability evaluations, including behavioral and subjective evaluations, for the fentanyl iontophoretic transdermal system (ITS).
This supports the use of the formative evaluation along with the summative evaluation in usability testing.
A whole new usability experience.
This paper describes the results of a summative evaluation conducted to explore the usability and acceptability of an automated telephone-based technology, designed and developed as a screening tool for mental health disorders in the workplace.
Here we describe how we achieved high reliability in the User Action Framework, and we support the claim with strongly positive results of a summative reliability study conducted to measure agreement among 10 usability experts in classifying 15 different usability problems.
The results of the studies introduce a possibility to develop a usability evaluation framework that includes both formative and summative approaches, as the results show a high degree of consistency between the different methodologies.
The evaluation may also involve user testing (e.g., usability testing at the formative stage and integrated system validation at the summative stage).
There needs to be a sensible balance between formative assessment (coursework) and summative assessment (final examinations).
Lorrie Cranor: It's the usability.
