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Technical Committee on Human Factors - Guidelines for real-time communication services
 
 
 
 
 

 User task types

 
 
 
 
 
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Why are User communication tasks important?

The different reasons why people communicate may create different requirements for the design of a communication service

User tests should be representative of real-world usage

Most user tests are restricted to one type of task

  • Results may be specific to the task studied

Understanding the differences between user tasks may help us to decide if test data for one task may be applied to another task