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Posting Date: July 26, 2002
 

More Analysts can mean Less Effectiveness in Usability Testing (Usability News) -- "Their work, to be reported at HCI2002, shows that existing means of combining analysts' responses often leads to a reduction in the accuracy of heuristic analysis as a predictor of user problems."

 

  

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The paper, once published, should prove interesting.

We shouldn't be surprised by the results - heuristic analysis generates a huge amount of false positives. Without a means to reduce these false positives, most approaches to heuristic analysis are of questionable value.

Posted by: Ron Zeno on July 26, 2002 11:46 PM

 

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