Usability engineering is a field of
computer science concerned with the question of how to design
software that is easy to use. It is closely related to the field of
Human-computer interaction. See also
usability testing.
Among the leading proponents of this field of study are Donald Norman and Jakob Nielsen[?]. Nielsen has written a book on the subject, aptly titled Usability Engineering, which was published in 1994.
The subject is considered of sufficient importance that a number of universities include a usability engineering course as part of the computer science curriculum.
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