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five-user rule: a standalone construct

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Human-computer interaction

the claim, from a model of problem discovery, that testing with about five users finds most usability problems.

In human-computer interaction, five-user rule refers to the claim, from a model of problem discovery, that testing with about five users finds most usability problems. This meaning comes from Nielsen (1993) in Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '93.[1]

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  1. Nielsen, J., & Landauer, T. K. (1993). A mathematical model of the finding of usability problems. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '93. https://doi.org/10.1145/169059.169166

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