usability
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Usability Opportunities
I discovered that the federal government awards contracts for usability testing. An example is the award of a contract to UserWorks, Inc. to conduct focus groups and usability testing of FirstGov.gov(see https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/newsroom/news-releases/gsa-awards-firstgov-usability-contract-to-userworks-of-silver-spring-md). I am definitely interested in these opportunities. From the company website, UserWorks (http://www.userworks.com/index.html) seems like a good company. It is a user experience… Continue reading
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Usability Of Mobile Applications
I found a very interesting paper on the evaluation of the user experience and UI (the usability) of the prototype of a mobile web energy monitoring system: Evaluating on User Experience and User Interface (UX/UI) of EnerTrApp a Mobile Web Energy Monitoring SystemBy: Kristine Mae P. Escanillan-Galera, Cenie M.Vilela-Malabananhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050919319477 The design of the study is… Continue reading
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Renowned Usability Expert
I admire Jakob Nielsen, renowned usability expert. He has been called:“The guru of Web page usability” (The New York Times),“The world’s leading expert on Web usability’ (U.S. News & World Report), and“One of the world’s most influential designers” (Businessweek). He holds a Ph.D. in human–computer interaction (HCI) from the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen… Continue reading
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Open Government Data Portals And Gamification
I found an interesting paper on open government data portals: Tailoring open government data portals for lay citizens: A gamification theory approachAnthony Simonofski, Anneke Zuiderwijk, Antoine Clarinvala, Wafa Hammedihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0268401222000421 I learned from the paper that most open government portals work best for expert users. The researchers proposed a gamification approach to “simplify” the portals for… Continue reading
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Trust in Web Retailing
Trust is important. Customers are more likely to purchase items (such as food) from a retailer he/she trusts. In the area of online reviews, users are more likely to act on a recommendation from a review he/she trusts(thinks is fair and balanced rather than one-sided, is from a recognized expert, provides pictures, and so on).… Continue reading
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Culturability
Culture affects usability. For example, color may have different meanings in countries. A website with lots of green would be a problem in France since the French associate green with criminality. On the other hand, a website with lots of green would invoke positive feelings in Egypt and Middle Eastern countries. The following article provides… Continue reading
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Video Player And Usability
I found a paper that made me realize that media players available on the web are not perfect. Research shows that YouTube players provide some desirable controls like captions, screen size, and so on, but there are alsoproblems such as difficulty with subtitles in some browsers and screen reader issues (for the visually impaired). Other… Continue reading
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Video Visits And Usability
My healthcare provider offers video visits. I have had quite a few video visits since the COVID-19 pandemic started. The video visits went quite well. I found a research paper that investigated how patients viewed their primary care video visits: Patient Perceptions of Telehealth Primary Care Video VisitsBy: Rhea E. Powell, Jeffrey M. Henstenburg, Grace… Continue reading
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Usability Of Mobile Applications
I found on excellent paper that reviewed the literature on usability studies of mobile applications: Usability of Mobile Applications: A Systematic Literature StudyBy Paweł Weichbroth and othershttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9042272 The papers includes a good discussion on the definition of usability. It also includes usability attributes identified for mobile applications (a whopping 75!) The most frequent attributes (the… Continue reading
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Usability of HoloLens
Today’s paper on usability is: Investigating the Usability of a Head-Mounted Display Augmented Reality Device in Elementary School ChildrenBy Luisa Lauer, Kristin Altmeyer, Sarah Malone, Michael Barz, Roland Brünken, Daniel Sonntag, and Markus Peschelhttps://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/19/6623/htm The researchers tested the usability of the Microsoft HoloLens 2 for elementary school students, perhaps to assess the devices for use… Continue reading
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