• Agribusiness and Information Management
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.37-62
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• 2009

Web usability for e-commerce sites becomes a more important issue as e-commerce gains its popularity. As for agricultural products, consumers are especially sensitive to the quality of information during transaction process. Successful e-commerce sites of agricultural products, such as Wine.com and Tesco, identified regular usability testing as part of key success factors. This paper aims to identify processes for evaluating usability for e-commerce sites of agricultural products and provide strategies to improve usability. The study aims to evaluate e-commerce usability of selected e-commerce sites using heuristic evaluation to provide objective e-commerce sites usability analysis for each transaction process.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.59-70
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• 2012

본 논문은 SOA기반 시스템에 대해 품질 평가를 하기 위한 품질평가 모델을 제안하고, 이를 이용하여 ISO/IEC 9126을 참조해서 품질 평가 대상이 되는 5개의 품질 속성 즉, 기능성, 신뢰성, 사용성, 효율성, 유지보수성에 대해 품질평가를 하였다. 그 결과는 "기능성", "신뢰성", "사용성", "효율성" 및 "유지보수성"에 대해서 모두 만족하였다. 또한 이들 5개의 품질속성을 종합한 SOA기반 시스템에 대해서도 61.45%로 만족하였다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국멀티미디어학회 2002년도 춘계학술발표논문집(하)
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• pp.1040-1045
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• 2002

This paper described the developed website usability evaluation system in terms of Kansei engineering using neural network. Developed system simultaneously operates with the MS Internet Explorer by entering the target URL for usability evaluation, and the results are learned using neural network. We firstly derived the Kansei adjectives and website usability factors and they were matched by the correspondence analysis. Then, highly corresponded adjectives were implemented on the system for the Kansei evaluation. Finally, the results showed the appropriate efficiency of developed algorithm and system for the website evaluation. If more subjects were used for the system learning, the efficiency of system could be improved.

• 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.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.407-422
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• 2014

Objective: The purpose of the study is to develop quantitative usability evaluation criteria for senior-friendly autonomous transportation robot. Background: The Republic of Korea has become the most rapidly aging society, and is anticipated to enter the post-aged society in 2026. To raise the quality of life of a senior with limited mobility and to reduce the burden of caregivers, many high-tech assistive products with information technologies are developed nowadays. The senior-friendly autonomous transportation robot is one person robot vehicle to move a senior to the destination for hospitals, nursing homes or silver town complex. With built-in navigation system and environmental monitoring censors, it automatically seeks the path to the destination and avoids collision to obstacles and pedestrians on the way. Due to the early stage of the product, few usability studies in this field have been done, mostly on general service robots to assist seniors, power wheelchairs and delivery robots. ISO and KS standards for the service robots are focused on safety. Method: Based on the reference usability index, the early draft of the usability evaluation questionnaires was developed. After small group tests and interviews, the experts modified the initial draft to the Usability Evaluation Criteria for Senior-Friendly Autonomous Transportation Robot (UEC-SFATR). Result: UEC-SFATR consisted of 4 subscales - Safety, Controllability, Efficiency and Satisfaction. All of the 4 subscales of UEC-SFATR were passed the reliability criteria by 4 groups of seniors, divided by gender and familiarity of smart-devices. Conclusion: UEC-SFATR covers wider area of user experiences of the SFATR and is a good measurement tool to help both the users and developers of the robot. Application: This study provides guide to the future product development and product competitiveness evaluation by quantifying user experiences for the SFATR.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.63-73
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• 1995

An approach to quantitative evaluation of product usability during the design and implementation phases of the product life cycle is presented. The evaluation starts by defining a set of usability characteristics, viz. physical, cognitive and affective characteristic. Each of these characteristics is assessed by a set of usability criteria, such as functionality, visual clarity, learmability, etc. The usability criterion is then evaluated by a checklist consisting of a detailed questionnaire. The fuzzy weighted-checklist method with linguistic variables is used for quantitative analysis. Also, the method for quantifying usability improve- ments in iterative design processes is considered. This analysis procides a quantit- ative measure, which reflects the degree of excellence of product usability during the design and development phases.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.491-494
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• 2011

Objective: to improve agricultural working environment using tools and equipments. Background: most existing tools currently used, in fact, are discrepant from human factor guidelines so that they are still exposed to the musculoskeletal disease. Method: the provided tools and equipments are mostly designed considering human factor engineering or usability engineering in a way to avoid musculoskeletal disease. Results: propose the top-down procedure and usability engineering steps to evaluate them for the system design suitability. Conclusion: apply them conveniently into rural environment to help farmers working environment.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.27-45
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• 2003

PDAs(Personal Digital Assistants), one of the typical mobile devices, are examined in this study to identify the factors affecting their usability. This study focuses on the menu design of PDAs. Three factors including menu extension method, menu structure, and screen orientation were manipulated in a usability experiment. Task completion times, error rates, and degree of subjective satisfaction were measured. Guidelines for designing a PDA menu are proposed based on the experimental results.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제15권11호
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• pp.2426-2432
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 국내 의료기관 웹 사이트를 대상으로 사용성 평가를 실시하고 그 결과를 분석하였다. 의료기관을 대학병원, 종합병원, 병원 그룹으로 나누고 각 그룹에서 4개씩 총 12개 병원을 선정하여 평가하였으며, 사용성 평가를 위해 평가 전 설문지, 태스크 수행 평가, 평가 후 설문지 그리고 평가자 인터뷰를 실시하였다. 태스크 수행 평가 결과를 살펴보면, 대학병원은 다른 그룹과 비교해 볼 때 비교적 사용성을 고려하여 설계되었으나 방대한 정보로 인한 복잡한 화면 구성과 모호한 인터페이스는 사용자에게 불편을 주는 요인으로 나타났으며, 보다 나은 사용성을 위해 사용빈도가 높은 주요 웹 서비스의 절차를 단순화하는 작업이 필요하다고 판단된다. 병원의 경우 태스크 수행과 관련된 서비스가 체계적이지 못하거나 서비스 자체가 제공되지 않는 경우도 있어 개선이 필요하였다.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.17-26
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• 2009

In this study, anthropometric analysis and usability evaluation for four-wheeled walker were carried out and then ergonomics design guidelines were proposed. In anthropometric analysis, design factors of four-wheeled walker were firstly identified and anthropometric design guidelines were made using Korean human scales. Design suitability for two typical four-wheeled walkers was analyzed in based on anthropometric design guidelines. Usability evaluation for two typical walkers was also performed through observation method and expert evaluation. Several usability problems were identified and design solutions were proposed for the design improvement of four-wheeled walker. Finally a design model of four wheeled walker considering analysis results was proposed.