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t. e. A user is a person who utilizes a computer or network service. A user often has a user account and is identified to the system by a username (or user name ). [a] Some software products provide services to other systems and have no direct end users .
Power user. A power user is a user of computers, software and other electronic devices, who uses advanced features of computer hardware, [1] [2] [3] operating systems, [4] programs, or websites [5] which are not used by the average user. A power user might not have extensive technical knowledge of the systems they use [6] but is rather ...
User experience ( UX) is how a user interacts with and experiences a product, system or service. It includes a person's perceptions of utility, ease of use, and efficiency. Improving user experience is important to most companies, designers, and creators when creating and refining products because negative user experience can diminish the use ...
In the industrial design field of human–computer interaction, a user interface ( UI) is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur. The goal of this interaction is to allow effective operation and control of the machine from the human end, while the machine simultaneously feeds back information that aids the operators ...
End user. In product development, an end user (sometimes end-user) [a] is a person who ultimately uses or is intended to ultimately use a product. [1] [2] [3] The end user stands in contrast to users who support or maintain the product, [4] such as sysops, system administrators, database administrators, [5] information technology (IT) experts ...
A computer monitor provides a visual interface between the machine and the user. Human–computer interaction ( HCI) is research in the design and the use of computer technology, which focuses on the interfaces between people ( users) and computers. HCI researchers observe the ways humans interact with computers and design technologies that ...
Doll and Torkzadeh's (1988) definition of user satisfaction is, the opinion of the user about a specific computer application, which they use. In a broader sense, the definition of user satisfaction can be extended to user satisfaction with any computer-based electronic appliance. However, scholars distinguish between user satisfaction and ...
In computing, the superuser is a special user account used for system administration. Depending on the operating system (OS), the actual name of this account might be root, administrator, admin or supervisor. In some cases, the actual name of the account is not the determining factor; on Unix-like systems, for example, the user with a user ...