An important component of e-government maturity is online software tools for financial analysis directly on the website. This paper develops a novel extension of website heuristic evaluation methodology, contributing a set of guidelines which encompasses not only website content, but also online software quality, based on established software evaluation concerns. Interactive online retirement a...

Web site usability and accessibility continues to be a pressing problem. Hence, there are over 30 automated evaluation tools to help designers to improve their sites. Unfortunately, there is little evidence about whether these tools actually improve sites from both the designer’s and the user’s perspectives. To gain insight, we conducted what we believe to be the first study of automated web si...

Stakeholders from healthy corner store programs in the San Francisco Bay Area convened in November 2015 to discuss the future of programmatic and collaborative efforts. This study's objective, to gather and synthesize the types of evaluation tools used in the 9-county region, was identified as one of several priorities. Tools were collected via an online survey in July 2016, and data were extra...

As we consider ubiquitous systems that display information on large screen interfaces, we must find reasonable methods for obtaining usability assessments. Standardized, generic methods provide appeal since they allow ready application, benchmarking, and comparison of results. However, critical usability concerns for these interfaces may demand more focused evaluation methods with interface-spe...

Computer aided design and computer aided modeling tools are becoming increasingly important in the design and performance evaluation of communication systems. In this work, we report on the computer simulation modeling study of terrestrial digital microwave radio transmission, using Block Oriented System Simulator package (BOSS). The work concentrates on semi-analytical error rate evaluation in...

There are currently automatic evaluation tools the purpose of which is to implement the knowledge gained by ergonomics experts, with a view to enabling nonexperts and particularly user interface designers themselves to carry out this evaluation. Capturing the description of the User Interface to evaluate automatically this interface is one of the main objectives of these automatic evaluation to...

Chemical classification and labelling systems may be roughly similar from one country to another but there are significant differences too. In order to harmonize various chemical classification systems and ultimately provide consistent chemical hazard communication tools worldwide, the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) was endorsed by the United Natio...

Meanings of morphological categories are an indispensable component of representation of sentence semantics. In the Prague Dependency Treebank 2.0, sentence semantics is represented as a dependency tree consisting of labeled nodes and edges. Meanings of morphological categories are captured as attributes of tree nodes; these attributes are called grammatemes. The present paper focuses on morpho...