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<strong>MAP</strong>-<strong>01</strong>-<strong>01</strong>1 – <strong>HFI</strong> <strong>Technical</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> (STGP 11)• Advantages• QUIS is a very quick and easy technique to use, requiring almost notraining.• The output of QUIS is immediately useful, offering an insight into thesystem users’ attitudes regarding the usability of the interface underanalysis.• If the correct sample is used, the systems potential users are in effectrating the usability of the system.• Once an operational system is available, the speed, ease and usefulnessof QUIS allow it to be used again and again to evaluate and modify thedesign concept.• Encouraging reliability and validity statistics.• QUIS statements can be added and removed in order to make the analysismore suitable for the software system in question.• Can be used effectively even with small sample sizes.• Disadvantages• May require substantial development in order to be used to assess C4Isystems.A3.12.4.2Software Usability Measurement Inventory (SUMI)SUMI is a questionnaire technique that uses fifty attitude scale statements inorder to measure the usability of software systems. SUMI has designed to beapplied to any software system that has a display, a keyboard (or other dataentry device) and a peripheral memory device such as a disk drive and has beenused extensively used in the past for a number of different purposes:• Assessing new products during product evaluation.• Product comparisons.• To set targets for future application development.• To set verifiable goals for quality of use attainment.• To track achievement of targets during product development.• To highlight the good and bad points of interfaces.When using SUMI, the sample group are simply given a representative set oftasks to perform with the system under analysis and then are asked to completethe SUMI questionnaire.May 2006 Page A3-120 Issue 4

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