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Search Publications by: Mary Frances Theofanos (Fed)

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Common Industry Specification for Usability --Requirements

June 13, 2007
Author(s)
Mary F. Theofanos
.The Common Industry Specification for Usability - Requirements (CISU-R) helps usability professionals, product managers, and others working in product design and development to create usability requirements. It sets standards for specifying usability

Usability Testing of Ten-Print Fingerprint Capture

March 13, 2007
Author(s)
Mary Theofanos, Brian Stanton, Shahram Orandi, Ross J. Micheals, Nien F. Zhang
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program are migrating from a two print capture process (left and right index fingers) to a ten-print slap fingerprint capture

Does Habituation Affect Fingerprint Quality?

February 20, 2007
Author(s)
Mary F. Theofanos, R J. Michaels, Jean C. Scholtz, Emile L. Morse, Peter May
Interest in the environmental factors that affect biometric image quality is increasing as biometric technologies are currently being implemented in various business applications. This study aims to determine, through repeated trials, the effects of

A practical guide to the CIF:usability measurements

December 29, 2006
Author(s)
Mary F. Theofanos, Brian C. Stanton, Nigel Bevan
Using the Common Industry Format ( CIF) to specify usability measures can positively influence the development process. The CIF remains inherently flexible and adaptable?empowering the practitioner to identify success criteria specific to the application

A Taxonomy of Definitions for Usability Studies in Biometrics

November 27, 2006
Author(s)
Ross J. Micheals, Brian C. Stanton, Mary F. Theofanos, Shahram Orandi
Historically, usability research strives to focus on user behavior in a manner that is as system independent as possible. Although ¿ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37 Standing Document 2 ¿ Harmonized Biometric Vocabulary, Draft N1779¿ provides a foundation towards common

Usability Standards: Are they effective in fostering good usability practice?

June 14, 2006
Author(s)
Mary F. Theofanos, Whitney Quesenbery, Dean Barker, Lisa Battle, Mike Paciello, Mary Beth Rettger
Do standards have a place in developing our usability practice? From those who believe they are a critical part of developing the profession to those who think they get in the way of creativity, standards provoke strong opinions. At Usability Professionals

Towards the Design of Effective Formative Test Reports

November 30, 2005
Author(s)
Mary F. Theofanos, Whitney Quesenbery
Many usability practitioners conduct most of their usability evaluations to improve a product during its design and development. We call these "formative" evaluations to distinguish them from "summative" (validation) usability tests at the end of

A Diner's Guide to Evaluating a Framework for Ubiquitous Computing Applications

October 1, 2005
Author(s)
Mary F. Theofanos, Jean C. Scholtz
There is a clear need for evaluation methodologies specifically suited to ubiquitous computing applications. Here we investigate a user evaluation framework we proposed earlier which draws upon traditional desktop methods, but carefully adapts them based