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Usability Testing of OpenCourseWare(OCW) - Focusing on Students with Visual and Hearing Impairments - (오픈코스웨어(OCW)에 대한 장애학생 사용성 평가 - 시각 및 청각장애 대학생을 중심으로 -)

  • Son, Jiyoung;Yeom, Myungsook
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.43-50
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of the study is to identify the usability of OpenCouresWare(OCW) from the perspective of students with visual and hearing impairments. Twelve college students with disabilities(8 visual and 4 hearing impairment) implemented usability testing. Two modules in both edX and KOCW were selected for testing. Students with disabilities implemented usability testing and then each individual case was analyzed through quantitative and qualitative methods. As results, the degree of general usability in both edX and KOCW indicated an average level and the degree of accessibility in edX module was evaluated higher than KOCW. Specifically, the module of edX was rated highly by students with hearing impairments and the usability level of KOCW module was highly appreciated by blind students.

Evaluating Usability of Mobile Applications for Smart Logistics (스마트 물류를 위한 모바일 애플리케이션의 사용성 평가)

  • Byun, Dae-Ho
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.10-21
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    • 2019
  • With the 4th industrial revolution, the traditional logistics is shifting to the smart logistics, and it has led to rapid growth of logistics startup companies to support smart logistics. They build their mobile applications and customize their services in the areas of freight transport, parcel delivery services, freight tracking, on-demand logistics, transport intermediary platforms, online-to-offline business, and last mile delivery. In order for logistics startup to be successful, it should lead to sales and profit through customer satisfaction and continuous use by developing highly usable mobile applications. The evaluation of usability of mobile application should use different evaluation criteria from Web based applications because of the inherent characteristics of mobile phone. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the usability of the mobile application provided by the logistics startup and to draw out implications and improvement plans. Through the literature review, we will review the concept of smart logistics. Thus we derive the usability criteria suitable for mobile applications and perform usability testing.

Evaluation of Mobile App Usability of Logistics in Life Startups (생활물류 스타트업의 모바일 앱 사용성 평가)

  • Byun, Dae-Ho;Chung, Dong-Seop
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.35-48
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    • 2021
  • With the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, startups are leading the proliferation of logistics in life services in countries across the world. Logistics in life startups aim to differentiate themselves for traditional logistics companies by offering customized services that penetrate niche logistics market and enhance customer convenience and satisfaction. Through the development of mobile applications(apps) and platform a variety of life-enhancing services are becoming increasingly available to customers, such as on-demand, online-to-offline, convenience, reverse logistics, as well as last-mile delivery. In particular, logistics in life services are expanding into areas that include food delivery, home moving, cargo transport, laundry delivery, car washing, and car repair. In order for the logistics in life startups to succeed, they needs to offer highly usable apps to increase customer satisfaction and loyalty. Due to the nature of mobile phones, different evaluation criteria than those for websits should be used to determine the usability of apps. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the usability of representative Korean logistics in life apps through usability testing, discuss implications and offer improvement recommendations. Finally, the best Korean logistics app is compared with a top ranked app on Google Play for benchmarking purposes.

Elicitation of User-Centered Usability Attributes and Comparison of Attributes between User Group and Developer Group: Focus on Mobile Trading System (사용자 중심의 사용성 속성 도출과 사용자 그룹과 개발자 그룹 간의 속성 비교: 모바일 트레이딩 시스템 중심)

  • Lee, Woon-Kyo;Kim, Ja-Hee
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.53-79
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    • 2021
  • With the revitalization of non-face-to-face transactions, the difference between the size of branches and transaction costs among securities firms has decreased, and the importance of the stock trading system has increased. In particular, the mobile trading system has become more important due to the increase in the proportion of transactions in the mobile trading system, which is widely used by individual investors, and the increase in the number of individual investors after COVID-19. However, user-centered usability studies are insufficient as usability studies on mobile trading systems are conducted through literature surveys or survey methods. Therefore, in this study, a repertory grid technique that finds user's empirical perception was used to find out user-centered usability attributes. The usability attributes of the mobile trading system from the user's point of view were elicited, and the difference in the usability attributes in terms of frequency and importance between the user group and the developer group was identified.

A Study on Usability Improvement of Mobile Healthcare Services

  • Kim, Heesun
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.72-81
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    • 2017
  • The developments in mobile technology and the increase in the production of smartphones have led to the growth of the mobile healthcare market. Moreover, the number of mobile healthcare apps is on the rise, and users are benefiting from using healthcare, exercise tracking, and body monitoring apps, as well as they have been searching for health information through mobile health apps. This paper evaluated the usability of a symptom checker application that provides information on diseases, treatment methods, and related hospitals through self-diagnosis of symptoms. Symptom checkers are currently being developed, and are widely used overseas. This paper sought to evaluate the usability of a symptom checker app, and suggested ways to introduce enhancements.

A study on the Website evaluation method using SEM (구조방정식을 이용한 Website 평가방법에 관한 연구)

  • 최재호;백인기;전영호
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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    • 2001.05a
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    • pp.109-113
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    • 2001
  • The purpose of this paper is to propose an analytical method for evaluating user satisfaction of Internet websites using the structural equation model(SEM). This paper is intended to identify critical evaluation factors of user satisfaction for websites to determine criteria for evaluating the websites, and use the criteria to develop a SEM model for quantitatively evaluation of each factors' effects of user satisfaction. The SEM model used 2 variables of usability and good-looks for the evaluation factors of websites user satisfaction and each factors have 4 sub evaluation criteria, 3 portal sites were evaluated to construct the SEM model, and 155 subjects participated the website evaluation using the walk-through and face-to-face survey method. Analysis results showed that the SEM model was statistically significant for all the 3 websites evaluated. Both the usability and good-looks two factors also showed significant effects to user satisfaction of websites and have positive correlation. The user satisfaction was more effected by the usability factor than good-looks, and the simplification and harmonization were the most critical sub-factors of the usability and good-looks.

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국내외 행정기관 웹사이트 사용성과 접근성 비교 연구;미국, 영국, 한국, 호주, 캐나다를 중심으로

  • Lee, Ju-Yeong;Mun, Hyeong-Nam
    • 한국경영정보학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.06a
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    • pp.421-426
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    • 2007
  • This study considered the most crucial elements in websites as web usability and web accessibility. The web usability signified the empirical satisfaction of ordinary users on websites and how much they used the relevant websites conveniently and accurately, while the web accessibility signified the technical support that could have an easy access to web contents and the principles of cognitive aspects, by considering the users such as those who have been alienated from information. Even if the people were given lots of beneficial information, the websites would be useless if their usability and accessibility were not considered. It would be necessary to reduce the information gap by letting any users (the physically challenged, the elderly, etc.) give an access to every information without any professional abilities and to provide the efficient websites corresponding to the embodiment goal of e-government through rapidity and accuracy of contents and the feedback for systematic structure and people's demand.

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A study on Quality Evaluation of a of a systems based on SOA (SOA기반 시스템의 품질평가에 관한 연구)

  • Cheng, Zhichao;Kwon, YoungJik
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.17 no.7
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    • pp.59-70
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    • 2012
  • This paper provides a model which is used for SOA based system's quality evaluation. This model make evaluation with "Reliability, Usability, Efficiency, Usability and Maintainability", these five aspects which were reference from ISO/IEC 9126. A systems based on SOA was tested by this model in these five aspects. As the results of the evaluation this system satisfied 61.45% users including Service Requester and Service Registry.

User Interface Styles for Different Office Tasks (사무업무 형태에 따른 적정 컴퓨터 사용자 인터페이스)

  • 최필성;곽지영;한성호
    • Proceedings of the ESK Conference
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    • 1994.04a
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    • pp.7-18
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    • 1994
  • Many office tasks have been automated by using computers to increase task productivity. The productivity of performing office tasks is dependent not only upon automating the task procedures, but also upon the usability of user interfaces. However, the literature lacks human factors research on evaluating the usability of user interface styles when they are used for performing different office tasks. This study evalu- ated the usability of user interfaces styles when performing various office tasks. User interface styles considered include menu-selection, command language, form fill-in, iconic styles, etc. A task analysis was conducted toclassify representative office tasks. A variety of analysis techniques such as brainstorming, analytic hierarchy process, prototyping, and expert opinions were used to evaluate the usability of the interfaces. The analysis procedures and results are described along with guidelines for selecting user interfaces in terms of subjective preferences and performance measures.

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A Usability Evaluation on the Visualization Techniques of Web Retrieval Results (웹 검색 결과 시각화 기법의 사용성 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Seong-Hee;Kim, Moon-Jeong
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.41 no.3
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    • pp.181-199
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    • 2007
  • This study is to suggest the usefulness of visualization techniques to display web retrieval results. We described the concept of visualization techniques and evaluated the usability for the SearchCrystal and KartOO search engines which provide visualization techniques for displaying the retrieval results. As a result, Searchcrystal search engine had higher score than KartOO system in terms of usability check lists.