• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.25-33
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• 2005

In order to minimize a biased view of evaluators in usability test, a multiple evaluation method so called Multi-Centered Usability Evaluation Method(MCUEM) was suggested and structured in this study. To use MCUEM, the existing evaluation methods were re-categorized into 'developer and evaluator-centered', 'evaluator-centered', 'user-centered', 'evaluator and user-centered', and the 'developer, evaluator, and user-centered methods. Furthermore, in order to verify the relevance of MCUEM, the usability of mobile phone was tested in this study. In results, it was found that different evaluation methods generated greatly different results, that showed the risk of using a particular usability method due to different perspectives of evaluators. At the same time, it was found that MCUEM could greatly minimize such biases. Therefore, it was concluded that using MCUEM could help the usability engineer design a test protocol with a minimal risk of bias due to different perspective of evaluators.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.105-125
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• 1999

As speech is the human being's most natural communication medium, using it gives many advantages. Currently, most user interfaces of a computer are using a mouse/keyboard type but the interface using speech recognition is expected to replace them or at least be used as a tool for supporting it. Despite the advantages, the speech recognition interface is not that popular because of technical difficulties such as recognition accuracy and slow response time to name a few. Nevertheless, it is important to optimize the human-computer system performance by improving the usability. This paper presents a set of guidelines for designing speech recognition interfaces and provides a method for evaluating the usability. A total of 113 guidelines are suggested to improve the usability of speech-recognition interfaces. The evaluation method consists of four major procedures: user interface evaluation; function evaluation; vocabulary estimation; and recognition speed/accuracy evaluation. Each procedure is described along with proper techniques for efficient evaluation.

• 대한인간공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한인간공학회 1997년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.366-371
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• 1997

Although the concept of usability has been well defined in the software usability engineering area, it is not appropriate to apply the same concept directly to the consumer electronic products. A new concept of usability appropriate for evaluating consumer electronic consumer electronic products was suggested in this study. It is characterized by integrating both the performance and the impression factors. Based on the concept developed, a systematic and integrated methodology for usability evaluation was proposed. The methodology contains four major steps; the development of the measurement methods for evaluating usability attributes, the development of the analysis techniques for the human interface elements, the development of the evaluation method for the usability of human interface elements, and the development of the usability model. The results of this study can be applied to evaluate the usability of various electonic products in a systematic and efficent manner.

• 한국전자거래학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.73-85
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• 2001

Usability is defined by the effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction with which specified users can achieve specified goal in particular environment. Today, many factors such as software acquisition, business re-engineering and the trend of software market have software industry considers usability as an important quality of software products. Therefore, the specification and measurement method for establishing the acceptable usability level of software is required during software development acquisition and evaluation. To evaluate whether software products is usable or not, we need evaluation method for software usability. This paper is not only to provide a framework for specifying the usability attributes of a product and establishing a comprehensive set of usability criteria, but also assessing usability metrics of the software. The usability metrics and checklist is developed based on the properties of the user interface using ISO standard and general usability principles with product-oriented view which means the Product has attributes contributing to determine the usability. This paper also suggested the way to weight the relative importance of the individual usability item depending on the software categories.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.121-130
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• 2021

다양한 산업 분야의 서비스 개발 경쟁 심화로 인해 긍정적인 사용자 경험을 제공하는 완성도 높은 서비스 제작의 중요성이 강조되고 있다. 이에 서비스 완성도와 효용에 대한 검증 방법으로 사용성 평가가 중요하게 인식되고 있지만, 일반적 사용성 평가 방법은 획일적인 구성으로 인해 다양한 참여자의 특성을 고려하지 못하는 한계가 있다. 이러한 한계가 평가 효율을 저하시킬 수 있기 때문에 이를 개선할 새로운 평가 방법의 가이드라인 개발이 필요한 실정이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 아동이 참여하는 사용성 평가에서 고려해야 하는 특성을 정의하고, 평가 효율을 증대시킬 수 있도록 원격 사용성 평가 구성 및 진행을 위한 가이드라인을 제안하였다. 또한 제안한 가이드라인을 기반으로 설계한 사용성 평가 실험을 진행하였으며, 이 과정에서 가이드라인의 효용을 검증하고 보완이 필요한 사항을 도출하였다. 본 연구를 통해 제안한 아동 대상 원격 사용성 평가 가이드라인이 아동을 대상으로 개발한 서비스의 사용성 평가 설계를 위한 기반 자료로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• 한국감성과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국감성과학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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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.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.96-103
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• 2015

In this paper, we first point out the limitation of the existing methods in usability evaluation, and propose a new method to find tasks and users that can cause problems in the use of software applications. To deal with object-based applications, we define unit actions and divide a given task into the sequence of unit actions. Then, we propose a new measure to calculate the degree of lostness for the unit actions. In several experiments, we show the proposed method can represent the usability well while the previous method has a problem in object-based applications. We also find that the user's evaluation is more related to the proposed method than the previous method based on execution time through correlation analysis.

• 대한인간공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한인간공학회 1995년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.16-22
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• 1995

The importance of usability evaluation is increasing in developing a new system and product. The current approaches for usability evaluation are: the comparative evaluation to measure usability, and the iterative user interface design to find usability problems. This paper pressents three types of characteristics and a set of criteria for usability evaluation. The methodology for criteria-based quantitative analysis of user interface usability is investigated with a view to measuring usability. The fuzzy weighted-checklist method with linguistic variables is used for quantitatie analysis. This analysis provides a quantitative measure, which reflects the degree of excellence of user interface usability during the design and development phases.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제24권62호
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• pp.79-87
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• 2001

Usability has become a primary factor in determining the acceptability and consequent success of consumer product. It is common that the product usability is evaluated by objective performance measures and/or subjective user preference measures. This study is concerned with objective evaluation of the product usability using 3-dimensional motion analysis. We evaluated car-audio position using 3-dimensional motion analysis. The parameters investigated in this experiment were height of car-audio, left-right angle, and front-end angle. The experimental results showed that the usability evaluation method using motion analysis was consistent with user's subjective assessment. This objective method can be applied to not only car-audio position evaluation but also various consumer products'usability evaluation.

• 인지과학
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.33-45
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• 2000

본 연구는 정보 시스템으로서의 웹(WWW)의 인지심리학적 특성들을 고려하여 웹사이트의 사용성에 관련된 디자인 특성들을 밝히고자 하였다. 구체적으로 다양한 목적의 웹사이트를 선정하고 다양한 비실험적 방법들을 이용하여 그 사이트의 홈페이지 디자인에 관한 사용성 평가를 실시하였다. 이를 위해 연구 1에서는 설문조사법을 통한 웹사이트의 사용성을 조사하였다. 그 결과, 몇 가지 중요한 사용성과 관련된 디자인의 특성들 및 요인들이 추출되었다. 연구 2에서는 연구 1에서 쉽게 발견되지 않은 특정 웹사이트의 세부적 사용성 문제들을 검출하기 위해 발견적 평가를 실시하였다. 연구 2의 결과, 발견적 평가가 연구 1 의 설문조사에 비해 디자인의 세부적인 문제점들을 더 잘 드러내는 것으로 나타났다.