Title
Application of the communicability evaluation method to evaluate the user interface design: A case study in web domain
Date Issued
01 January 2016
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Springer Verlag
Abstract
According to the Semiotic Engineering, the human-computer interaction is a way of communication between designers and users. The Communicability Evaluation Method (CEM) is a technique to assess this communication and determine the degree in which the designers achieve to convey users their design intents through the system interface. Most case studies that are described in the literature are focused on the evaluation of desktop applications. In this study, we present the results of a communicability evaluation to a transactional Web application. The experimental case was run by three specialists in the field of HCI and involved the participation of four university students from two academic programs in Computing. These users had to perform some tasks that were developed based on the results of a previous work. After an analysis of the interactions, we concluded that the Website can be difficult to use by users with no experience in the use of this type of software. There are certain aspects of the interface design that should be improved.
Start page
479
End page
490
Volume
9746
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones
Informática y Ciencias de la Información
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84977560121
ISBN
9783319404080
ISSN of the container
03029743
ISBN of the container
978-331940408-0
Conference
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
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