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Jakob Nielsen

Jakob Nielsen

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Computer Science

D-Index
93
Citations
90232
World Ranking
497
National Ranking
265

Overview

Jakob Nielsen is affiliated with UX Tigers in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and health professions, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience, speech and hearing, and sensory systems as subfields.

The main topics within their body of work include:

  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics

Jakob Nielsen has contributed to scientific literature with recent papers such as:

  • "Critical hearing experiences manifest differently across individuals: insights from hearing aid data captured in real-life moments," published in 2021 in the International Journal of Audiology
  • "Impact of a combination sound therapy on tinnitus distress: an exploratory one-year longitudinal study," published in 2024 in Frontiers in Audiology and Otology

The venues where their research appears most frequently include:

  • International Journal of Audiology
  • Frontiers in Audiology and Otology

Their work is often collaborative, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Dina Lelic
  • Daniel M. Parker
  • Filip Marchman Rønne
  • Sueli Caporali
  • Laura Winther Balling

Best Publications

  • Usability Engineering

    Jakob Nielsen

  • Designing Web Usability

    Jakob Nielsen

  • Heuristic evaluation of user interfaces

    Jakob Nielsen;Rolf Molich

  • Usability inspection methods

    Jakob Nielsen

  • Heuristic evaluation

    Jakob Nielsen

  • A mathematical model of the finding of usability problems

    Jakob Nielsen;Thomas K. Landauer

  • Chapter 4 – The Usability Engineering Lifecycle

    Jakob Nielsen

  • Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity

    Jakob Nielsen

  • Enhancing the explanatory power of usability heuristics

    Jakob Nielsen

  • Hypertext and Hypermedia

    Jakob Nielsen

  • Finding usability problems through heuristic evaluation

    Jakob Nielsen

  • Improving a human-computer dialogue

    Rolf Molich;Jakob Nielsen

  • Prioritizing Web Usability

    Jakob Nielsen;Hoa Loranger

  • Ten Usability Heuristics

    Jakob Nielsen

  • Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond

    Jakob Nielsen

  • The art of navigating through hypertext

    Jakob Nielsen

  • Method and system for escrowed backup of hotelled world wide web sites

    Jakob Nielsen

  • The usability engineering life cycle

    J. Nielsen

  • Chapter 6 – Usability Testing

    Jakob Nielsen

  • Measuring usability: preference vs. performance

    Jakob Nielsen;Jonathan Levy

  • Estimating the number of subjects needed for a thinking aloud test

    Jakob Nielsen

  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

    Irvin R. Katz;Robert Mack;Linn Marks;Mary Beth Rosson

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce Tognazzini
Bruce Tognazzini Oracle (United States)
D. Grahame Hardie
D. Grahame Hardie University of Dundee
Wendy A. Kellogg
Wendy A. Kellogg IBM (United States)
Michael Muller
Michael Muller IBM (United States)
Mary Czerwinski
Mary Czerwinski Microsoft (United States)
Bruce E. Kemp
Bruce E. Kemp Australian Catholic University
Benoit Viollet
Benoit Viollet Institut Cochin
Sophie Vaulont
Sophie Vaulont Université Paris Cité
Susan T. Dumais
Susan T. Dumais Microsoft (United States)
Bente Klarlund Pedersen
Bente Klarlund Pedersen University of Copenhagen

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