TY - GEN
T1 - An empirical evaluation of a usability measurement method in a model driven framework
AU - Ben Ammar, Lassad
AU - Mahfoudhi, Adel
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Usability is increasingly considered as a basic determinant of the Interactive Systems (IS) success. An IS that satisfies all the functional requirements can be rejected by end-users if it presents usability problems. Unusable User Interface (UI) is probably the main reason that may lead to the failure in the actual use of an IS. Therefore, several approaches dealing with the evaluation of the user interface usability have been proposed in literature. However, these approaches are focused on the final system and require a large amount of resources to perform the evaluation (end-users, video cameras, questionnaires, etc.). The ability to go back and makes major changes to the design is greatly reduced. It is widely accepted that the evaluation performed at the beginning of the development process is a critical part of ensuring that the product will be used and effective for its intended purpose. In addition, an early usability evaluation would be a significant advantage with regard to saving time and resources. The purpose of the present paper is to investigate the integration of the usability issues at an early stage of the development process. A model based approach is presented and empirically evaluated.
AB - Usability is increasingly considered as a basic determinant of the Interactive Systems (IS) success. An IS that satisfies all the functional requirements can be rejected by end-users if it presents usability problems. Unusable User Interface (UI) is probably the main reason that may lead to the failure in the actual use of an IS. Therefore, several approaches dealing with the evaluation of the user interface usability have been proposed in literature. However, these approaches are focused on the final system and require a large amount of resources to perform the evaluation (end-users, video cameras, questionnaires, etc.). The ability to go back and makes major changes to the design is greatly reduced. It is widely accepted that the evaluation performed at the beginning of the development process is a critical part of ensuring that the product will be used and effective for its intended purpose. In addition, an early usability evaluation would be a significant advantage with regard to saving time and resources. The purpose of the present paper is to investigate the integration of the usability issues at an early stage of the development process. A model based approach is presented and empirically evaluated.
KW - Empirical Evaluation
KW - Model Driven Engineering
KW - Plastic User Interface
KW - Usability Model
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84879866630&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-39062-3_10
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-39062-3_10
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84879866630
SN - 9783642390616
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 157
EP - 173
BT - Human Factors in Computing and Informatics - First International Conference, SouthCHI 2013, Proceedings
T2 - 1st International Conference on Human Factors in Computing and Informatics, SouthCHI 2013
Y2 - 1 July 2013 through 3 July 2013
ER -