ENIAC , the Association of Computer Science and Engineering Students, conducted a talk on ‘Usability Engineering’ by Mr. Philip Joseph, Assistant Professor, Computer science ,at the Seminar Hall on 29th August 2013.
Usability engineering is a field that is concerned generally with human-computer interaction and specifically with making human-computer interfaces that have high usability or user friendliness. In effect, a user-friendly interface is one that allows users to effectively and efficiently accomplish the tasks for which it was designed and one that users rate positively on opinion or emotional scales. Assessing the usability of an interface and recommending ways to improve it is the purview of the Usability Engineer. The largest subsets of Usability Engineers work to improve usability of software graphical user interfaces (GUIs), web-based user interfaces, and voice user interfaces (VUIs).This talk urged the students to develop products with usability in mind
