Multiple choice technology usability

The goal of the usability science is to increase awareness of a product.

  1. True

  2. False
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Usability science aims to improve how effectively and efficiently users can achieve their goals, not merely to increase product awareness. Awareness is a marketing objective, while usability focuses on user performance and satisfaction.

AI explanation

Usability science is concerned with how effectively, efficiently, and satisfyingly users can accomplish goals with a product — not with marketing or brand awareness, which fall under advertising/marketing disciplines. Increasing 'awareness of a product' is a promotional goal, unrelated to whether the product is easy and satisfying to use once someone is already interacting with it. Since the statement conflates usability with marketing awareness, it is False.

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