Table of Contents:

Definition and Overview

1. What Is the Human-Machine Interface?

2. Usability: Why Is It Important?

3. Usability Engineering Principle #1: Know Your Users

4. Principle #2: Involve Users Early and Continuously

5. Principle #3: Rapid and Frequent Iteration Toward Measurable Usability Targets

6. The Usability Engineering Lifecycle: Requirements Gathering and Rapid Prototyping

7. The Usability Engineering Lifestyle: Usability Evaluation

8. Relevant International Standards

9. Where to Find out More

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ACM
Association for Computing Machinery

ANSI
American National Standards Institute

HMI
human machine interface

HTML
hypertext markup language

IISP
Information Infrastructure Standards Panel

ISO
International Standards Organization

ITU
International Telecommunications Union

LIFES
North American Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

SIGCHI
Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction

UPA
Usability Professionals' Association