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The term ’usability’ is generally used today to identify the degree of a user interface, application or a device to which it satisfies the user during usage. It is often referred to as “user friendliness” or “software ergonomics”. In this paper we argue that usability is formed by two inseparable parts. The first is the ergonomic usability, the second aspect we call domain usability. During our research we found out, that domain usability is equally important as ergonomic usability, however, it is often neglected by software designers. In this paper we introduce new definitions of understandability and domain usability. Finally the total usability is formed by two aspects - domain and ergonomic. We hope this paper to be a guide or a rule for creating applications that are as close as possible to a domain user. The goal of this paper is to draw attention to domain usability and to stimulate further research in this area.
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Bačíková, M., Porubän, J. (2014). Domain Usability, User’s Perception. In: Hippe, Z., Kulikowski, J., Mroczek, T., Wtorek, J. (eds) Human-Computer Systems Interaction: Backgrounds and Applications 3. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 300. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08491-6_2
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