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While usability aspects play a crucial role in socio-technical systems, proper usability evaluations are often neglected during development due to time and financial constraints or the lack of availability of usability experts. To assess the ...

Within the framework of a workshop held to present the DUXAIT-NG platform, a heuristic evaluation with the approach proposed by Granollers was carried out as a case study, with the participation of 20 participants with different profiles and ...

Existing academic social networks for researchers do not currently address the multitude of their tasks and diverse needs. This paper presents the EPICommunity platform, a social network for researchers designed by researchers. The EPICommunity ...

It is crucial to assess the usability of digital health applications to promote physical exercise since problems with usability could lead to errors in utilization, which may result in accidents such as falls. Heuristic evaluation has been applied ...

The Republic of Zambia has a total of 68 Higher Education Institutions (HEI's) accredited with the Higher Education Authority (HEA) of Zambia. The increase in the number of HEIs has necessitated the need to comprehensively evaluate the usability of ...

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) affects individuals’ communication, social interaction and personal interests. The use of digital resources (games, websites, apps, etc.) in conjunction with therapies and interventions has become an alternative for ...

This workshop will offer participants the opportunity to engage in a face-to-face learning experience. The main objective of this workshop is to equip participants with the essential skills and knowledge necessary to plan and conduct heuristic ...

This paper explores the usability of Docker Image Vulnerability Scanners (DIVSes) through heuristic evaluations. Docker simplifies the process of software development, distribution, deployment, and execution by providing a container-based execution ...

Wearable technologies aim to merge computational elements into the user's daily life through integration with clothing. This type of technology distances itself from traditional computer models by its variety of communication options with the user and ...

The usability of interactive systems is nowadays considered a fundamental quality attribute of these systems, since when the user experience is negatively affected by an unusable interface, the user may decide not to use the system again.

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When learning to code, children and novice programmers often transition from block-based to traditional text-based programming environments. This paper explores the usability problems within a block-based authoring environment, EduBlocks, that may ...

This paper presents new, novel and useful Universal Design principles in the context of mobile augmented reality (AR) applications. The principles can be used in an evaluative and/or design setting. The design of the principles was undertaken ...

The heuristic evaluation belongs to the usability inspection methods and is considered one of the most popular methods since it allows the discovery of over 75% of the total usability problems involving only 3 to 5 usability experts. However, ...

Determining the usability of mechanical ventilator interfaces is vital in ensuring correct usage under critical procedures that can place patients’ health in danger. Heuristic evaluation has been used to evaluate usability in many different areas, ...

Context: Digital transformation is a reality; Services that used to be face-to-face are now very flexible. With this, the countries chosen by the e-government improve the relationship with the citizens. Problem: Citizen-user systems have their own ...

Heuristic evaluation is a popular inspection method principally used for the assessment of usability according to expert-based criteria. Since its (practical) emergence in the early 90s, it has become one of the most widely-used method, mainly utilized ...

Heuristic evaluation is an informal method used to analyze the presentation of an interface design to several evaluators. Heuristic evaluation is done by conducting several interface tests and analyzing the interpretation of the interface. English Kids ...

Previous works show that virtual reality itself can be used as a medium in which to stage an experimental evaluation. However, it is still unclear whether conventional usability evaluation methods can directly be applied to virtual reality evaluations ...

The goal of every business website, blog and online shop is increase traffic or customer engagement with a view to improve sales. Attractive user interfaces (UI) and user experiences (UX) are essential to achieving these marketing goals. Therefore, this ...

The conception, and usage, of methods designed to evaluate information visualizations is a challenge that goes along with the development of these visualizations. In the scientific literature there is a myriad of proposals for such methods. ...