Usability practitioners need effective usability assessment techniques in order to facilitate development of usable consumer products. Many usability evaluation methods have been promoted as the ideal. Few, however, fulfill expectations concerning effectiveness. Additionally, lack of empirical data forces usability practitioners to rely on personal judgments and/or anecdotal statements when dec...

Current usability practices favor such an approach. Increasingly, companies are conducting usability programs with cross-functional teams including full-time usability specialists, technical writers with some usability responsibilities, and representatives from marketing and product development. In the authors’ consulting firm, Tec-Ed, most of the usability specialists are also veteran technica...

Eelke Folmer, Jilles van Gurp, Jan Bosch Department of Mathematics and Computing Science University of Groningen, PO Box 800, 9700 AV, the Netherlands [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] http://www.rug.nl/informatica/search Abstract Usability is increasingly recognized as an essential factor that determines the success of software systems. Practice shows that for current softwa...

AbstrakPerkembangan teknologi yang cepat pada saat ini membuat banyak perubahan proses bisnis hampir semua sektor termasuk pendidikan, sehingga kegiatan sebelumnya dilakukan secara manual sekarang bisa otomatis menggunakan sebuah sistem/teknologi informasi. Salah satu contoh perkembangan dikembangkan adalah website. Di dalam pendidikan misalnya instansi mempunyai website sebagai pintu gerbang u...

0953-5438/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.intcom.2009.09.001 Abbreviations: HCI, human–computer interaction munication technology; WDE, work-domain experts; * Corresponding author. Address: SINTEF ICT, P.O. B Norway. Tel.: +47 22067515; fax: +47 22067350. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (A. Følstad), ben [email protected] (D.I.K. Sjøberg). It is a challenge for usability ex...

OBJECTIVES To compare the usability of different Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) workstations, determine whether a usability test has added value with respect to the traditional way of comparing PACSs based on functional requirements, and to evaluate the appropriateness of a task-based methodology for a PACS usability test. METHODS A task-based usability test of four PACS wo...

Extended Abstract 1 Developing a usable website is pivotal for e-business success, yet previous studies have reported that current websites contain numerous usability problems. There are many reasons for poorly designed websites, but this research focuses on the lack of a good theory of website usability, a theory that explains and predicts the effects of website usability on online customer pe...

As the growth of rapid prototyping techniques shortens the development life cycle of software and electronic products, usability inquiry methods can play a more significant role during the development life cycle, diagnosing usability problems and providing metrics for making comparative decisions. A need has been realized for questionnaires tailored to the evaluation of electronic mobile produc...