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Usability evaluation methods are a battery of techniques for assessing the usability of interactive systems or of proposed interactive systems. This paper describes a new evaluation method, particularly appropriate for evaluating safety critical and high quality user interfaces. The method can also be used for informing HCI research. The method is applied when a specification is available of an interactive system, or when a system (or prototype) is working.
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Thimbleby, H. (2007). Interaction Walkthrough: Evaluation of Safety Critical Interactive Systems. In: Doherty, G., Blandford, A. (eds) Interactive Systems. Design, Specification, and Verification. DSV-IS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4323. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69554-7_5
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