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Morae is a software package that allows usability practitioners to perform various activities that are usually involved in a conventional laboratory-based usability test. Morae provides functionalities to assist the usability practitioner in planning, testing, analysing data and reporting results. It is developed by Techsmith and runs on the Windows operating system.
The Morae software package has three separate and independent components:
...The report below documents findings from a study that was carried out to find the most trustworthy typeface for use on financial websites.
User perceptions of the personality traits of 9 common fonts on Windows and Macintosh systems were studied and the 5 most professional, reliable, formal, assertive and friendly fonts were short-listed for further investigation. A survey was then carried out to find the most trustworthy typeface on screen in a financial context....
In this study, the effect of integrating audio cues in software interfaces and retention of keyboard shortcut keys in the short-term memory of users was investigated.
Four sets of users each viewed different versions of a video showing three tasks being performed in a software application, following which they were asked to enter the shortcut keys of the tasks being performed. Users with audio and visual cues aids remembered the shortcuts better than the other three...