error rates

Terms from Human Computer Interaction the Basics

The glossary is in progress.

From entry error rate in glossary Statistics for HCI: Making Sense of Quantitative Data

The error rate for a task is the frequency or number of errors that a user encounters whilst performing the task. This is one of the metrics used to evaluate the usability of a system.

Used in Chap. 4: page 55; Chap. 8: page 114

Also known as: error counts