The development of more usable and effective healthcare information systems has become a critical issue. In the software industry methodologies such as agile and iterative development processes have emerged to lead to more effective and usable systems. These approaches highlight focusing on user needs and promoting iterative and flexible development practices. Evaluation and testing of iterativ...

The chapter explores the role that formal modelling may play in aiding the visualisation and implementation of usability with a particular emphasis on experience requirements in an ambient and mobile system. Mechanisms for requirements elicitation and evaluation are discussed, as well as the role of scenarios and their limitations in capturing experience requirements. The chapter then discusses...

Web usability evaluation methods have been traditionally considered as detached from the analysis of the actual usages of a web applications. While the former is typically delegated to web engineers or web designers, the latter seems to be a concern only for online marketing experts. Based on our previous research results, in this paper we present a holistic evaluation model that seamlessly int...

This paper proposes an online testing and analysis system for studying students’ Creative Problem-Solving (CPS) ability in sciences. Using an open-ended essay-question-type test, students are asked to express their idea and imagine how to solve problems better. Based on previous works, we utilize an automated scorer for evaluating students’ CPS ability. This system serves as a real-time (self-)...

Many studies have worked on virtual laboratory for desktop computers, yet the development of virtual laboratories for mobile devices is still at a developing stage because of its interface peculiarities and the assessment for its evaluation is yet to be established. This research has explored the use of Mobile Virtual Laboratory (MVL) for laboratory practicals in institutions of higher learning...

Mobile health (mHealth) apps can play a significant role in supporting older patients. The aging process is yet related to progressive degradation of sensory, physical and cognitive abilities. mHealth apps with touch screen based interfaces thus need to be adapted to the, often impaired, skills and special needs of older patients. However, existing design guidelines for mHealth apps do not addr...

The building of a re-configurable business process (BP) has gained importance in organizations. It helps the organization to adapt agility goals. A proper context-driven BP should be capable integrating dynamic context information. However, this is absent existing studies. As result, providing suitable, expressive and stakeholders become challenging issue. prevailing research works lack conside...

This paper introduces the notion of plasticity, a new property of interactive systems that denotes a particular type of user interface adaptation. Plasticity is the capacity of a user interface to withstand variations of both the system physical characteristics and the environment while preserving usability. Typically, a ‘plastic’ electronic agenda would run both on a workstation and on a hand-...

With the adoption of Standardized Electronic Health Records (EHRs) databases, recent research studies consider standardization and interoperability. At the same time the need for querying (the archival data) is becoming important. The complex and dynamic nature of these databases give rise to several usability challenges. This study aims to reduce the gap between the designed application flow a...