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» 1993 «

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Maguire, M., Dillon, Andrew, Brooke, John, Gerven, Johan van, Bevan, Nigel, Paci, Anna Maria, Karat, John and Shackel, Brian (1993): Usability Measurement -- Its Practical Value to the Computer Industry. In: Ashlund, Stacey, Mullet, Kevin, Henderson, Austin, Hollnagel, Erik and White, Ted (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 93 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 24-29, 1993, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. pp. 145-148. Available online

“This panel will consider the role of usability measurement in the design process. It will address the time needed to perform usability evaluations and compare this process with that of expert assessment. This topic will be discussed in the industrial context of developing computer products within strict timescales. However it will also be seen against the traditional problem of needing to set usability goals and to measure their achievement if usability is to be given the same priority as the more technical software engineering objectives.”

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Coniglio, Ivana and Paci, Anna Maria (1987): Ergonomic Field Analysis of the Software Design Workstation. In Behaviour and Information Technology, 6 (3) pp. 369-379

“This research has been carried out in order to verify in the field the exigencies yielded by a particular task and report indications for the ergonomic optimization of the relevant workstation. The task under examination was software design executed by 127 subjects in different environments. The steps in which this research was carried out were as follows: analysis of the task; analysis of subjects; analysis of the workstation and environment; and observations on 24 subjects representative of the population. The observations were in order to discover the level of posture variability and establish the physical parameters to be optimized. Results show that, for the activity examined, the heaviest restrictions imposed by the hardware refer to the eye-screen distance, head movement and curvature of the trunk. Therefore, the physical parameters to be optimized are height, width and depth of the table, and height and design of the chair.”

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Paci, Anna Maria (1984): Contribution of Ergonomics to the Design of Antireflection Devices in the Development of VDU Workplaces. In Behaviour and Information Technology, 3 (4) pp. 381-385

“The design of the early Olivetti VDU workplaces used the micromesh filter as an antireflection device. New ergonomic problems related to the use of the VDUs have forced the designers to adopt the etching treatment on new VDUs and to supply them with the micromesh filter only in cases of particularly highly lit environments. Afterwards, in order to give the operator the opportunity of using the preferred colour of the character, the designers set up coloured plastic filters, which also show good antireflection effectiveness. In this case, the choice of correct colours and the determination of the best compromise between antireflection effectiveness and character sharpness are the contribution of ergonomics to the design of the filters. In this paper the different antireflection devices and their ergonomic evaluation are presented and discussed.”

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