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Morae Usability Glossary of Terms

Collaborative User Experience Testing (CUET): Collaborative User Experience Testing is the practice of multiple team members observing usability test sessions live over a network, regardless of location, with each member logging the test with his or her own comments that are consolidated with a usability test recording to provide a collaborative view of the test through the eyes of the entire team.

Human Computer Interaction – Human–computer interaction is a discipline concerned with the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and with the study of major phenomena surrounding them. (SIGCHI)

Human Factors – That field involving research into human psychological, social, physical and biological characteristics, maintaining the information obtained from that research, and working to apply that information with respect to the design, operation or use of products or systems for optimizing human performance, health, safety and or habitability. (http://www.usabilityfirst.com/glossary/main.cgi)

Rich Recording Technology (RRT): TechSmith's Rich-Recording Technology (RRT) is a platform that digitally synchronizes people and systems to merge human information and information technology in ways never before possible. This patent-pending technology synchronizes video of the user including their audio and facial expressions, system activity like mouse clicks, Web page changes, and dialogue boxes, and the test application into one file that is indexed and searchable.

Usability Professional – The UPA defines a usability professional broadly as anyone who works on, or advocates for the usability of their products. (UPA)

User Centered–Design – User Centered–Design (UCD) is a philosophy and a process. It is a philosophy that places the person (as opposed to the 'thing') at the center; it is a process that focuses on cognitive factors (such as perception, memory, learning, problem–solving, etc.) as they come into play during peoples' interactions with things. (STC)

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