Alfred T. Lee · ACM SIGCHI Bulletin · 1999
article Web usability: a review of the research Share on Author: Alfred T. Lee View Profile Authors Info & Claims ACM SIGCHI BulletinVolume 31Issue 1Jan. 1999 pp 38–40https://doi.org/10.1145/329671.329688Published:01 January 1999 13citation424DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations13Total Downloads424Last 12 Months18Last 6 weeks1 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access
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Ekkehard Schmider · X.media.press · 2003
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Shirley Ann Becker · IGI Global eBooks · 2005
The study of computing technology and user interfaces was initiated during the 1970s when industrial research laboratories began to focus on human-computer interaction (HCI) (Badre, 2002). In the 1980s, the personal computer was introduced, thus expanding the need for designing effective user interfaces. HCI became a discipline during this time, and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) established the Special Interest Group in Computer Human Interaction. One of the first textbooks on HCI, Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (Schneiderman, 19891), was published. Shortly thereafter, HCI became part of the ACM curriculum promoting the development of effective user interfaces. Software tools were developed in order to assist in designing usable interfaces while employing usability engineering methods. Many of these methods focused on usability from the perspective of ease of use, ease of learning, user satisfaction, and zero defects (Nielsen, 1993).
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Andrejs Kostromins · 2014
In the modern world Web and its services have become integral part of our society. Web serves a lot in many ways, for example, information provider, for doing business and work, for shopping and leisure etc. In the past years a huge amount of Web sites were developed for these purposes. Most of them serve well for users' needs; however, Web usability issue takes a very important part in the Web sites lifetime. Low level of Web sites usability makes users to waste their time, lose loyalty to those Web sites and demotivates users. This aspect caused massive research efforts among the scientists and researchers to point out the most important cornerstones of the Web usability. We live at technology era and it brings new challenges in the field of Web usability. The rush in people life forced appearance of the mobile phones that nowadays are the part of people life. Step by step simple mobile phones turned into smartphones, where in addition to making trivial phone calls, they are capable of performing a variety of other functions. One of these functions is ability to access the Internet, so the Web sites. At this point starts the new challenge for Web usability, because even powerful smartphones have several limitations: relatively small screen, tiny buttons, slow connection speed etc. In the article authors show importance of the mobile Web usability because of indisputable predominance of smartphones against PCs according to smartphones penetration analysis. The most common Web usability evaluation methods are summarized. The mobile Web usability literature analysis suggests additional usability tips for mobile Web sites.
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Brian Holda · 2019
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ศศิพันธ์ นิตยะประภา · 2015
องคกรทงในภาครฐและภาคเอกชนใชเวบไซตเพอชวย เสรมศกยภาพทางธรกจทตองการความรวดเรว ฉบไว และ ทนตอการแขงขน เนองจากเวบไซตเปนสอกลางสำคญใน การสอสารและดำเนนธรกจระหวางองคกรกบผเขาใช เวบไซต ดงนนผพฒนาเวบตองคำนงถงการออกแบบเวบให ใชงานไดงาย สามารถชวยใหกจกรรมระหวางองคกรและ ผใชเวบไซตบรรลผลสำเรจ บทความนมวตถประสงคเพอให ผอานมความเขาใจเกยวกบ “การใชงานได” ของเวบไซต โดยครอบคลมหวขอตอไปน ทมา ความหมาย ความสำคญ เปาหมาย มาตรฐานสากลสำหรบการออกแบบเวบ คอมาตรฐานชด ไอเอสโอ 9241-151 และมาตรฐาน Web usability ทกำหนดโดยกระทรวงสาธารณสขประเทศ สหรฐอเมรกา และสดทายการประเมนการใชงานไดของ เวบไซต ทงนเพอเปนแนวทางสำหรบผทสนใจใหสามารถ พฒนาเวบไซตใหบรรลเปาหมายการใชงานได มประสทธผล ประสทธภาพ และผใชงานพงพอใจมากยงขน Sasiphan Nitayaprapha A web site has become an important part of most organizations both public and private. This is because a website can help organizations in transcending time and place barriers to customer reach. In addition, a web site can be used for many purposes, for example communication, marketing, and selling and purchasing. To ensure that a web site works effectively, a web designer has to develop a site that is easy to use and that serves the needs of its intended audience. Usability of web site is crucial, because users experience usability of a site before they commit to using it and before they spent money on potential purchases. Since usability has its own value to every web site, this article provides an understanding of it. The article covers the following topics introduction to web usability, definition, importance, and goals of web usability, then the official guidelines, and finally evaluation techniques and the examples of web usability evaluation. This may helpful for web site designers and readers to develop a web site that is efficient and ease to use.
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Donna Talarico · Disability Compliance for Higher Education · 2026
In this new recurring series, we present a few quick hits — four things you can complete or consider in about four minutes. First up, website usability. There are many ways to improve the usability of a website, from behind‐the‐scenes technical tasks to changes that everyday users will notice on the page. This month's column focuses on four of them. Whether you’re reviewing one page or completing an audit of an entire section, here are a few key areas to consider.
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Albert N. Badre · Ubiquity · 2002
Optimizing the user experience should be the ultimate aim of the Web usability designer.
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O Lyardet, Gustavo Rossi · 2014
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Jakob Nielsen, Kara Pernice · 2010
Based on one of the largest studies of eyetracking usability in existence used rigorous methodology and eyetracking technology to analyze 1.5 million instances where users look at Web sites. Their findings will help designers, software developers, writers, editors, product managers, and advertisers understand how the human eyes interact with Web sites and what will significantly improve user experience.-- Publisher info.
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Ahopelto, Jaakko · Aaltodoc (Aalto University) · 2020
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Alexander Velander · KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) · 2011
Web site usability is an important factor when creating and managing web sites, since it essentially determines whether or not the site is usable by its intended audience. As an attempt to simplify the process of achieving high usability for web sites, this thesis has explored the possibility of integrating usability guidelines with web content management systems. The overall aim was to determine if, and how, usability guidelines can be implemented in a web content management system to make it promote and deliver web site usability, and to find solutions that aid web site users in carrying out the basic tasks of finding, reading and understanding information on the web. To estimate the effectiveness of such solutions, the level of human dependency was considered when evaluating the solutions. This thesis has shown that it is possible to construct such solutions, and has found several for each of the basic user tasks of finding, reading and understanding information. Although some of the found solutions automatically improve a site's usability or actively promote site usability, the majority are still dependent on human efforts in order to promote usability. It was concluded that it is possible to integrate usability guidelines with a web content management system, but that web site usability still largely depends on human effort in order to be effective.
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Guoqiang Hu, Kai H. Chang · 2006
World Wide Web has gained its dominant status in the information and services delivery world in recent years, but how to build a good usability web site is still a problem. In this paper, we proposed a methodology for structured use-centered quantitative full-life-cycle usability requirements specification and usability evaluation of web sites. Our approach is that: the system's usability is defined in terms of its consisting goal-tasks' usability; a goal-task's usability is defined in terms of several major usability aspects; each major usability aspect is further defined in terms of several basic use features. In this way, a quantitative web sites usability engineering framework is set up. According to this framework, each goal-task's usability requirements are specified in terms of its basic use features, and then are tested against to see if they are satisfied; a system's usability can be easily derived by combining its consisting goal-tasks' usabilities through a weighted scheme.
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Golam Mostafiz · BRAC University Institutional Repository (BRAC University) · 2007
This thesis report is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, 2007.
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Ann Chadwick-Dias, Michelle McNulty, Tom Tullis · 2002
We conducted two usability studies that included a total of 49 participants ranging in age from 20 to 82. The goal of Study 1 was to learn whether there were differences in how older adults interact with the Web and whether changes in text size would affect performance. Users completed tasks on a prototype employee/retiree benefits site using various text sizes. We learned that older users (55 years or older) had significantly more difficulty using the Web site than younger users. Text size did not significantly affect performance in any age group. In Study 2 new participants performed the same tasks on a version of the site that was redesigned to address the usability problems encountered by older users in Study 1. The goal was to learn whether we could redesign the prototype to improve the performance of older adults. Performance improved significantly for both older and younger users.
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K.K Teoh, Thian Song Ong, P.W. Lim et al. · American Journal of Applied Sciences · 2009
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Mosharraf, Mahen · BRAC University Institutional Repository (BRAC University) · 2018
This internship report is submitted in a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Business Administration, 2017.
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Ahmed AlHassan · 2007
With the increase use of web pages as interface to data and information on the Internet and the Intranet, the usability of these web pages became essential. We
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G.M. te Brake, Kim Kranenborg · TNO Repository · 2015
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