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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2019.23.11.1391

A Study on Application Usability Evaluation for Smart Toy  

Cho, Donghwan (Department of business administration, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology)
Choi, Hun (Department of Management Information Systems, Catholic University of Pusan)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.23, no.11, 2019 , pp. 1391-1396 More about this Journal
Abstract
With the recent increase in the importance of software, software education is required in elementary schools in Korea. At this point, coding education combining play and education using smart toys is widely used. One of the most widely used smart toys is a block type smart toy. In this study, usability evaluation was performed to improve user's usability for block type smart toy with smartphone application. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, a heuristic technique with experts, one of various usability evaluation techniques, was performed. As a result of the analysis, it was found that the buttons and the switch of the menu were not well distinguished, and the cause of the error was not provided to the user. The results of this study can be the basis for improving the usability of applications for smart toy in the future.
Keywords
Smart toy; Usability test; Heuristic technique; Smartphone application;
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