Title
Selection and Modeling of a Formal Heuristic Evaluation Process Through Comparative Analysis
Date Issued
01 January 2022
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Abstract
Due to the importance of usability, multiple usability evaluation methods have been proposed that help Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) specialists determine whether the interfaces of a software product are usable, easy to use, understandable, and attractive. Among these methods, the heuristic evaluation proposed by Jakob Nielsen is the one that stands out. Although Nielsen offers general guidelines for the execution of heuristic evaluations, very few authors of different studies present a formal agreement or process on how the evaluations should be carried out, which leads us to the problem of the absence of a comparative analysis that allows determining the most appropriate formal evaluation process to carry out heuristic inspections. To complement, some proposals found in the literature compare the results of the execution of heuristic evaluations, the definition of new heuristics, qualification forms, and the formalization of the complete process in 5 phases. Although these proposals contribute to the formalization of the heuristic evaluation process, the literature review has not provided a comparative analysis that allows determining which is the most appropriate, which could cause usability evaluators to interpret and carry out their own procedure, which would lead to inaccuracies in the results and increase the probability of improperly executing the inspection. The purpose of this study was to elaborate a comparative table of the formal processes; this allowed the grouping of the various studies found in the literature, to select a process, and thus, and to model by a BPMN tool the whole process. Finally, this process modeled was validated by expert judgement of HCI specialists.
Start page
28
End page
46
Volume
13321 LNCS
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la computación
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85133265730
ISBN
9783031058967
Source
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
ISSN of the container
03029743
Sponsor(s)
Funding text
This work was funded by the Dirección de Fomento a la Investigación at the PUCP through grant 2021-C-0023.
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