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Developing an Index of Usability to Evaluate Utilization of Mobile Toilets among the Elderly: A Case Study (고령자의 이동변기에 대한 사용성평가 지표 개발 : 사례 연구)

  • Kim, Seonchil;Lim, Hyunsub;Cho, Sunghyoun
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Integrative Medicine
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.83-92
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    • 2018
  • Purpose : The purpose of this study was to develop an index of usability that reflects the needs and characteristics of the elderly. The usability index is used primarily to assess issues in the usability of a product. Methods : In this study, 22 items for mobile toilet usability index were developed by consulting with 12 elderly users, 6 caregivers, and 12 experts. The usability evaluation index was intended to increase reliability through preliminary and main evaluations. In addition, the validity of the items used as the usability evaluation index was verified to prove that the index is effective for the evaluation. Result : The usability index is a welfare tool developed by gathering data from various sources such as previous studies dealing with usability evaluation, characteristics of users, range of use, and environment of product use. Conclusion : The development of the usability index for mobile toilets was useful for the user to quantitatively derive the problem of the product. Consequently, user needs and usability problems can be identified, which can help improve product quality.

Implementation and Design of Usability Analysis System for Upgrading the Usage of Mobile Applications (모바일 어플리케이션 활용도를 높이기 위한 사용성 분석 시스템 설계 및 구현)

  • Koo, Hyun-Woo;Lee, Chang-Hwan;Kim, Yei-Chang
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.171-182
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    • 2012
  • The many companies and developers develop new mobile applications for serving to users. But, most of it is disappeared in a brief. Because Many applications weren't satisfy the needs of user. In this paper, it analysis to reason short life of mobile application in the smart terminals and mobile applications. Therefore, we develop dynamic user usability analysis system of applications to solve the problem. User usability analysis method is surveyed users and masters at present and then occurs high cost. In this paper, we develop dynamic user usability analysis system for real users. If usage of mobile applications upgrading, benefit of developers increased and serviced target contents to users.

User-centered Design of m-Learning System: Moodle On The Go

  • Minovic, Miroslav;Stavljanin, Velimir;Milovanovic, Milos;Starcevic, Dusan
    • Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.80-95
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    • 2010
  • In order to truly integrate e-Learning system into regular curriculum at a university, mobile access to Learning Management Systems has to be enabled. Mobile devices have the potential to be integrated into the classroom, because they contain unique characteristics such as portability, social interactivity, context sensitivity, connectivity and individuality. Adoption of Learning Management Systems by students is still on the low rate, mostly because of poor usability of existing e-Learning systems. Our initial research has confirmed this hypothesis. Usability issue is rising to the higher level on the mobile platform, because of the mobile devices' limited screen size, input interfaces and bandwidth, and also because of the context of use. Our second hypothesis was that it is wrong to consider a mobile device as a surrogate for desktop or laptop personal computer (PC). By just adopting the existing Learning Management System on mobile devices with adaptive technologies such as Google proxy, we do not acquire the satisfactory results. Usability can prove to be even lower compared to desktop application. One possible solution to the problem could be development of rich client applications for today's mobile devices that would raise the usability to a higher level. We developed a PocketPC prototype application by using user-centered design principles, which we presented as a third alternative in usability research conducted among university students. Results gathered in such a way have confirmed that development of e-Learning system, in order to be widely accepted by students, needs to have the user(student) in the center of development process.

Potentials and Challenges of the Usability of Museum Mobile Applications (박물관 모바일 애플리케이션의 사용성에 대한 잠재력과 문제점)

  • Rhee, Boa
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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    • 2015.01a
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    • pp.307-308
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    • 2015
  • The biggest challenge of managing mobile interpretative device is encouraging visitors to have the mobile experience. Thus, in the research of the mobile application of the Leeum, a short orientation session as a treatment was provided to survey participants to make them use of a mobile experience and to solve the problem of hesitancy. Based on the research data, their satisfaction with visiting experience and with using the application appeared to be relatively high. However, several problems such as intrusiveness, isolation, head-down effect and technical problems needed to be improved to have a promising future.

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Evaluating the Usability of Size Comparison UI for Online Clothing Shopping Malls

  • Kim, Heesun
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.61-70
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    • 2020
  • As mobile device usage time increases thanks to the development of information and communication alongside the increase in the spread of smartphones, mobile shopping has become a common trend. While mobile shopping has the advantage of saving both time and money, it may also result in dissatisfaction with product differences after purchase. For online clothing shopping malls, in particular, if the size does not match after purchase, it is difficult for customers to return or exchange the goods. To address this problem, some mobile apparel shipping malls offer a virtual fitting service and a size comparison function; however, the number of such malls remains low. In this paper, a usability evaluation was performed on a mobile apparel shopping mall that provides a size comparison function. The three apps selected for evaluation have different size input methods, and a slightly different method of providing results after comparing the user's dimensions with the dimensions of the clothes to be purchased. In this paper, the evaluators were asked to select clothes at the shopping mall and perform the task of deciding the size of the clothes to be purchased through their own measurements and comparison while also evaluating the effectiveness, meaning, and satisfaction of the apps. Based on the analysis of the results, this paper aims to produce an improvement plan and help design the size comparison UI (User Interface) in the future.

A Study on the Development of Mobile APP Usability Evaluation Tool for Time Management (시간관리 모바일 앱 사용성 평가도구 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Saem;Nam, Won-Suk
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.12 no.12
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    • pp.19-29
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    • 2021
  • Although several industrial revolutions and technological developments have provided time for modern people, more than 75% of modern people are currently suffering from the problem of "lack of time". Therefore, in this paper, it was judged that it was necessary to improve the mobile APP service for efficient time management of modern people, and a study was conducted on the development of usability evaluation tools. First, the current status was analyzed through case studies of six time management apps with different purposes, and then usability studies were conducted to establish a total of five evaluation principles with operability, cognition, user suitability, minimization of work errors, and sharing. Based on this, a draft of the time management mobile app usability evaluation item was prepared, and a total of 44 usability evaluation tool items were derived through three Delphi surveys of design experts over 5 years and less than 10 years. As a result, intuitive screen and menu composition and user's perception of content were evaluated as the most important factors, and conclusions such as the need to improve the structure and function of the main content screen for user error prevention and usability were drawn. This study will not only contribute to improving the usability of existing time management mobile apps, but will also be used as a material for designing an integrated time management platform for efficient time management and purpose promotion in the future, and is expected to be used as an academic reference.

The User Interface Basic Elements for Small Mobile Web (소형 모바일 웹을 위한 사용자 인터페이스 기본 요소)

  • Moon, Byung-Koo;Lee, Won-Ho;Choi, Seong-Cheol
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.11 no.9
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    • pp.3532-3537
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    • 2010
  • Mobile phones can access the wired website using mobile Full Browsing service. But the number of mobile websites is quite small compared to domestic Internet domain, and is mainly concentrated in some large businesses. The small businesses and individuals have a problem that is difficult to develop mobile Web interface, because they are lack of the technology for usability and compatibility. This paper proposes the small basic interface elements that are considered usability and based on relevant standards and can easily be applied in the industry. The proposed basic interface elements consist of 33 elements for overall behavior, navigation, contents, page definition and user input.

Users Basic Characteristics for Designing the User Interface of Mobile Phone - Focus on the twenties and the thirties - (휴대폰의 사용자 인터페이스 설계를 위한 사용자들의 기초 사용특성 분석 - 20대와 30대 사용자들을 중심으로 -)

  • Jung, Kwang-Tae;Chae, Yi-Sik;Kweon, O-Seong;Lee, Dhong-Ha;Kim, Jae-Hwan
    • IE interfaces
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.73-81
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    • 2002
  • In mobile phone, complex user interface tend to cause the degradation of product usability. This problem is mainly due to the small hardware user interface of mobile phone. That is, because many functions must be operated in small hardware interface, the principle of one-to-one mapping between a function and a control is disregarded in design, often. In order to resolve this problem, users' characteristics must be considered in the user interface design of mobile phone. So, users' basic characteristics that must be considered in the user interface design of mobile phone were studied through two experiments, questionnaire survey and user testing.

User Interface Design Platform based on Usage Log Analysis (사용성 로그 분석 기반의 사용자 인터페이스 설계 플랫폼)

  • Kim, Ahyoung;Lee, Junwoo;Kim, Mucheol
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.151-159
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    • 2016
  • The user interface is an important factor in providing efficient services to application users. In particular, mobile applications that can be executed anytime and anywhere have a higher priority of usability than applications in other domains.Previous studies have used prototype and storyboard methods to improve the usability of applications. However, this approach has limitations in continuously identifying and improving the usability problems of a particular application. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a usability analysis method using touch gesture data. It could identify and improve the UI / UX problem of the application continuously by grasping the intention of the user after the application is distributed.

The Empirical Study on User Factor of LBS(Location-Based Service) Application Service in Mobile (모바일 LBS(Location-Based Service)응용 서비스의 사용자요인에 대한 실증적 연구)

  • Yim, Ki-Heung;Park, Eun-A
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.225-239
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    • 2007
  • Mobile service is highly becoming in the limelight on information society by offering infringement problem about individual privacy or information by political and scientific interest This study is focusing on primary LBS application Mobile service that emphasize position confirmation, especially, looking for friends. The aim at this study grasps user productivity factor of LBS application Mobile service, and analyses whether some have relations with value and action determination of LBS application Mobile service. According to result, Mobile service applying position service is supported with usefulness and system quality, adaptedness. On the other hand, Usability and social effect, privacy weren't embossed by leading person. Mobile service applying position service is changed with a person who have experience looking for friend. This study has systematically analysed about LBS application service by leading person