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Developing Evaluation Criteria for Enterprise UX (엔터프라이즈 UX를 위한 평가 기준 개발)

  • Jung, Tae-Won;Yoon, So-Yeon;Nam, You-Seon;Seong, Da-In;Yoon, Yea-Jin;Lee, Min-Ho;Song, Sa-Kwang;Ha, Kwang-Soo
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.99-110
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    • 2020
  • Recently, as User Experience (UX) is considered as an important concept in the service design process of various fields, securing usability of Enterprise UX, UX developed for professional users, is acknowledged as an essential factor to increase work efficiency. The interface of Enterprise UX is complex and technically difficult for it is targeted for professional users. Thus, creating problems with complicated planning and relatively insufficient concerns regarding usability due to emphasis on development efficiency. It is necessary to consider various methods of usability, regarding further improvement is arduous in aspects of development and the cost. Therefore, this study aims to define the concept and specificity of Enterprise UX to improve usability and system effectively, and verify the main factors that reduce the usability of Enterprise UX. The evaluation of the research enterprise service, RDP (Research Data Platform), was conducted to establish and verify hypothesis. Furthermore, an independent evaluation standard for Enterprise UX is proposed after testing speculating factors that lower the usability of Enterprise UX. It is expected to utilize the Enterprise UX usability criteria defined through this study as a base data in enhancing usability and in designing Enterprise S/W.

Usability Evaluation Criteria of Software GUI on Weapon System (무기체계 소프트웨어 GUI에 대한 사용성 평가 요소 도출)

  • Kim, Du-Jeong;Lee, Hye-Won;Jung, Joo-Hyun;Yong, Hwa-young
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.16 no.12
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    • pp.8691-8699
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    • 2015
  • With the technology of our time growing sophisticated everyday, softwares advance rapidly in accordance. Reflecting this trend, researches on Usability of S/W GUI(Graphical User Interface) is actively taking place. However, despite the active researches on such topic, Usability study of S/W GUI for weapon system remains insufficient. For such reason, this paper intends to focus on drawing evaluation factors as well as priority of design factors for Usability of S/W GUI for weapon system. For an accurate and reliable result, Usability evaluation attributes & design factors were assessed by professionals. Moreover, by incorporating AHP(Analytical Hierarchy Process) and Matrix analysis, each evaluation attributes' level of importance and relation between design factors & usability attributes were assessed to draw final design priority. As a result, the importance of Informativity, Accessibility, and Visibility were derived as 0.127, 0.121, 0.108, and selected to be the foremost priority for evaluating. This research could be utilized as foundation for usability evaluation of S/W GUI on weapon system.

Improvement of Mobile Web Usability for Mobile Cloud Computing (모바일 클라우드 컴퓨팅에 최적화된 모바일 웹 사용성 개선)

  • Lee, Myung-Sun;Oh, Hyoung-Yong;Min, Byoung-Won;Oh, Yong-Sun
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.11 no.9
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    • pp.85-95
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    • 2011
  • Recently, sudden interests of mobile cloud computing as well as conventional internet environment are rapidly increased as cloud computing spread out in our web society. Mobile devices including smart phone are rapidly changing in a wholesale way that covers hardwares, applications, and services. However, the Internet access using mobile device is not quite smooth in this local mobile internet environment which suffers from lack of understanding and observance of Web Standards. Although most of domestic web sites are developed focusing on various functions and eye-catching designs, this should became one of the main factors that make the usability and accessability decrease when accessing web with smart phones or table PCs. Therefore, this paper suggested a web interface that considered usability and accessability under mobile cloud environment and we tried to prove it via usability test. It could be found that there was an improvement of usability of interface of the main page that has been optimized to the mobile device environment suggested from the previous research we present, but this paper aimed to prove a usability improvement of total website as a whole by performing the usability test on the entire website. Selecting a special website optimized for mobile cloud computing, we prove an improvement of usability and accessibility. Therefore, we offer a guideline about user interface design applications to developers or companies who want to construct mobile website.

Usability Evaluation of Touch Keyboard in Smart Watch Environment

  • Oh, Euitaek;Choi, Jinhae;Cho, Minhaeng;Hong, Jiyoung
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.35 no.6
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    • pp.569-580
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    • 2016
  • Objective: This study aims to identify the most effective keyboard layout in the area of performance for securing usability in a smart watch-using environment and to verify the usability of touch keyboard calibrated by hand. Background: It is necessary to understand the environmental characteristics in using the smart watch and to secure the usability of touch keyboard based on this understanding in order to take account of the users who use the touch screen in the extreme input conditions caused by the small screen of a smart watch. Method: 30 participants in this study were required to input characters using the QWERTY keyboard and 3x4 keypad (Naratgul, Chunjiin), which were familiar with them, in order to grasp the keyboard layout suitable in the smart watch- using environment; the performance (error rate, performance time) of this case was measured. In addition, 30 participants in this study were required to input the characters setting the QWERTY keyboard with calibrated touch area and the one with uncalibrated touch area, based on the characteristics of touch behavior, by finger typing the keyboard, with the performance (error rate and performance time) of this case measured. Results: QWERTY keyboard (93.3sec) is found to be 31.2% faster than Naratgul keyboard, a kind of 3x4 keypad, and 43.6% faster than Chunjiin keyboard, in the area of efficiency, in the results of the usability evaluation regarding the keyboard layout. QWERTY keyboard with calibrated touch area (7.5%) is found to be 23.5% improved compared to the QWERTY keyboard with uncalibrated touch area (9.8%) in the area of accuracy (error rate). The results of the usability evaluation regarding the QWERTY keyboard with touch area calibrated by finger typing the keyboard and QWERTY keyboard with calibrated touch area (80.7sec) is found to be 5.7% improved compared to QWERTY keyboard with uncalibrated touch area (85.6sec) in the area of efficiency (performance time). Conclusion: QWERTY keyboard is found to have an effective layout in the area of efficiency in the smart watch-using environment, and its improved usability is verified in the areas of accuracy and efficiency in the QWERTY keyboard with a touch area calibrated by finger typing the keyboard. Application: The results of this study may be used to set up the basic touch keyboard of the smart watch. The input usability is expected to secure the smart watch-using environment, which is an extreme input condition by applying QWERTY keyboard with touch area calibrated by finger typing the keyboard.

The Usability Evaluation Indicators for Services Design Platform (서비스디자인 플랫폼을 위한 사용성 평가지표 연구)

  • Jung, Hoe Jun;Kim, Kwang Myung;Jo, Sun;Ko, Young Jun
    • Korea Science and Art Forum
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    • v.20
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    • pp.409-419
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    • 2015
  • Service Design Platform which has been developing under the sponsorship of the Ministry of Knowledge Economy is aimed at facilitating service design consultancy to carry out service design projects smoothly online. In the development process in order to verify and improve the usability of the platform, heuristic evaluations by usability experts along with usability test done by user participation are required. This study was conducted for the purpose of deriving appropriate evaluation areas and detailed evaluation indices prior to carrying out the heuristic evaluation. For the study, first, the concept of the service design platform was identified and the features of its component were analyzed. Second, based on literature study of standards which are related to usability evaluation indices, usability evaluation areas and indices were analyzed. Third, in order to establish and verify evaluation areas and indices which are appropriate for the evaluation, Delphi survey was conducted and its validity was verified. Through this study, evaluation indices with 4 evaluation areas and 45 detailed items were derived. Derived evaluation indices was made in the form of checklist and will be utilized for heuristic evaluation by usability experts.

Usability Testing of OpenCourseWare(OCW) by College Students with Visual and Hearing Impairments - Focused on the Accessibility of KOCW - (시각 및 청각장애 대학생의 오픈코스웨어(OCW) 사용성 평가 - KOCW의 접근성을 중심으로 -)

  • Son, Ji-Young;Yeom, Myung-Sook
    • Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.127-132
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of the study is to identify the accessibility of OpenCouresWare(OCW) from the perspective of college students with visual and hearing impairments. Six students with visual impairments(3 blind and 3 low vision) and four students with hearing impairments(2 deaf, 2 hard of hearing) implemented usability testing. Two modules in KOCW were selected for testing. Students implemented usability testing and then each individual case was analyzed through quantitative and qualitative methods. As results, the degree of usability and accessibility in two modules indicated low level. Implications and recommendations for designing OCW module based on the results were suggested.

Importance and Usability Analysis of the Oriental Nursing Educational Program (한방간호 교육프로그램 교과과정의 중요도 및 활용도 분석)

  • Lee, Ji-A;Lee, Hye-Kyung
    • The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.376-386
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    • 2011
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze the importance and usability of the curriculum of the oriental nursing educational program among clinical nurses who completed the program. Methods: The study employed a cross-sectional descriptive survey design. Data were collected from March 1, 2010 to April 25, 2010 from 68 oriental or allied hospital nurses who completed the oriental nursing educational program. A70-item questionnaire of importance and usability of the program curriculum and as an instrument of knowledge of oriental nursing were used. Data were analyzed by SPSS 18.0 program. Results: The majority of participants (69.1%) experienced difficulties in clinical practice due to lack of oriental nursing knowledge and skill. In knowledge of oriental nursing, meridian points had the most negative responses (51.5%), followed by oriental documentation (42.7%) and oriental herbal medicine (20.6%). The highest ranked course in importance was oriental fundamental nursing with clinical practicum in usability. The scores of usability items were significantly lower than those of importance items. Conclusion: This study suggests that the clinical job description and role of oriental nurses should be organized. The oriental nursing educational program needs to include more unique clinical nursing content.