Usability Evaluation of PC Communication Softwares with Different Dialogue Types

서로 다른 사용자인터페이스 대화방식의 PC통신 소프트웨어 사용편이성 평가 연구

This study reviews usability of PC communication softwares with different dialogue types of user interface. Usability test was conducted to evaluate usability of 3 PC communition softwares which are currently utilized in Korea. Learnability was adopted as an index of usability evaluation, so learning time, testing time and scores were measured as dependent variables. It is suggested that softwares with mixing dialogue type(menu, icon, command) which were implemented in window systems environment were not superior to that with command dialogue type.