The Usability Construct: A Concern for Both Theory and Practice

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¹ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/efficiency.

² Other conventional treatments of that time included the consumption of mercury paste, sulphuric acid, and hydrochloric acid, e.g., for the treatment of syphilis. These were sometimes successful in addressing symptoms, but often killed the patient at the same time (cf. Singh & Ernst, 2008).

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Noam Tractinsky

Noam Tractinsky ([email protected], http://www.bgu.ac.il/~noamt/) is a researcher with interest in the study of various aspects of human–computer interaction; he is a Professor in the Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.