Usability
Usability: Effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction with which a specified set of users can achieve a specified set of tasks in a particular environment.
Definition
Effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction with which a specified set of users can achieve a specified set of tasks in a particular environment. Usability in the context of voting refers to voters being able to cast valid votes as they intended quickly, without errors, and with confidence that their ballot choices were recorded correctly. It also refers to the usability of the setup and operation in the polling place of voting equipment.
Alternative Definitions
- Definition 2
Effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction with which a specified set of users can achieve a specified set of tasks in a particular environment. Usability in the context of voting system standards refers to voters being able to cast valid votes as they intended quickly, without errors and with confidence that their ballot choices as marked were recorded correctly. It also refers to the usability of the setup of voting equipment for the election and the running of the election by poll workers and election administrators.
- Definition 3
Effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction with which a specified set of users can achieve a specified set of tasks in a particular environment. Usability in the context of voting refers to voters being able to cast valid votes as they intended quickly, without errors, and with confidence that their contest selections were recorded correctly. It also refers to the usability of the setup and operation of voting equipment in the polling place.
- Definition 4
The “effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction with which a specified set of users can achieve a specified set of tasks in a particular envi ronment.” ISO 9421. Usability in the context of voting system standards refers to voters being ab le to cast valid votes as they intended quickly, without errors, and with confiden ce that their ballot choices were recorded correctly. It also refers to the usability of the setup, operation and maintenance of voting equipment for the election by poll workers and election administrato rs. The “extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context of use.” 2007 VVSG.