The interest in develo** usable products has led to the inclusion of usability aspects in
product development processes. Nonetheless, the fact that there is a tendency to overlook …

The mining industry in South Africa contributes significantly to the national economy. Despite
stringent safety legislation, mining accidents cause numerous fatalities and injuries …

This chapter is concerned with a particular perspective on the problem of evaluation design.
User-oriented evaluation takes as primary some user or set of users who need to …

Le traitement automatique des langues (TAL) relève à la fois de la démarche scientifique et
de la démarche technologique. Dans les deux cas, l'évaluation des systèmes informatiques …

This paper looks at a class of systems which pose severe problems in evaluation design for
current conventional approaches to evaluation. After describing the two conventional …

Abstract The Framework for the Evaluation for Machine Translation (FEMTI) contains
guidelines for building a quality model that is used to evaluate MT systems in relation to the …

A major obstacle to the implantation of User-Centered Design in the real world is the fact that
no precise de nition of the concept of usability exists that is widely accepted and applied in …

This paper starts from the ISO distinction of three types of evaluation procedures–internal,
external and in use–and proposes to match these types to the three types of human …

A major obstacle to the implantation of User-Centered Design in the real world is the fact that
no precise definition of the concept of usability exists that is widely accepted and applied in …

We present an on-going research project carried out at the Universidad Nacional de
Córdoba in Argentina. This project investigates theoretical and practical research questions …