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Research and Design of Functional Requirements of Shared Electric Bicycle App Based on User Experience

  • Xiangqin Zhao (Information Center, Jiangsu University of Technology) ;
  • Bin Wang (College of Business, Jiangsu University of Technology)
  • Received : 2022.04.28
  • Accepted : 2022.08.10
  • Published : 2023.04.30
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Abstract

Intelligent applications are crucial for increasing the popularity of shared urban electric bicycles (EBs). Building an application platform architectural system that can satisfy independent user operations is critical for increasing the intelligent usage of shared EBs. Consequently, we collected online reviews of shared EB applications, conducted semantic processing and sentiment analysis, and refined the positive and negative review data for each function. The positive and negative review indices of each function were calculated using the formulae for positive and negative review indices of product functions, thereby determining the functions that need to be improved. Each function of the Shared EB application was improved according to its business process. The main contributions of this study are to build a user requirement architecture system for the Shared EB application with five dimensions and 22 functions using the Delphi method to design the user interface (UI) of this application based on user satisfaction evaluation results; to create a high-fidelity dynamic interaction prototype and compare user satisfaction before and after improving the Shared EB application functions. The testing results indicate that the changes in the UI significantly improve the user experience satisfaction of the urban Shared EB application, with the positive experience index increasing by 69.21% and the negative experience index decreasing by 75.85% overall. This information can be directly used by relevant companies to improve the functions of the Shared EB application.

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This work was supported by the Major Project of Philosophy and Social Science Fund of Universities in Jiangsu Province (2021SJZDA031).

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