System User
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A System User is a person who can use a computing system.
- Context:
- They can range from (typically) being an System End-User to being a System Administrator User.
- They can (typically) make System User Actions.
- They can range from being a Service User to being a Product User.
- They can have:
- a User Preference, (e.g. high preference for punk music, low preference for classical music).
- a User Interest (e.g. “1950s film noir movies”, “Perl hacking”).
- They can agree to a Legal Agreement with the Computing System Owner.
- They can provide User Input.
- They can communicate with another User (in a user communication act).
- They can have a User Experience.
- They can have a User Journey (modeled by a user journey model).
- They can manifest a User Behavior.
- They can be associated to a User Persona.
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- Example(s):
- one of a CI/CD System.
- one of a Spotify's Recommender System.
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- a Citizen.
- See: User Profile, Information User, User Information Need.
References
2020
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user_(computing) Retrieved:2020-5-5.
- A user is a person who utilizes a computer or network service. Users of computer systems and software products generally lack the technical expertise required to fully understand how they work. Jargon File entry for </ref> Power users use advanced features of programs, though they are not necessarily capable of computer programming and system administration.
A user often has a user account and is identified to the system by a username (or user name). Other terms for username include login name, screenname (or screen name), account name, nickname (or nick) and handle, which is derived from the identical citizens band radio term.
Some software products provide services to other systems and have no direct end users.
- A user is a person who utilizes a computer or network service. Users of computer systems and software products generally lack the technical expertise required to fully understand how they work. Jargon File entry for </ref> Power users use advanced features of programs, though they are not necessarily capable of computer programming and system administration.