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Usability

nounid 5152·updated May 13, 2026
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ISO/IEC TS 5723:2022(en) Trustworthiness — Vocabulary1 senseview framework →
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extent to which a system product or service can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context of use (note 1: The “specified” users, goals and context of use refer to the particular combination of users, goals and context of use for which usability is being considered; note 2: used as a qualifier to refer to the design knowledge, competencies, activities and design attributes that contribute to usability, such as usability expertise, usability professional, usability engineering, usability method, usability evaluation, usability heuristic). [See also: ISO/IEC 9241-11 Ergonomic of Human-System Interaction — Part 11: Usability: Definitions and Concepts. ISO, Geneva, Switzerland, 2018, https://www.iso.org/standard/63500.html.]

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