Usability

1. Introduction Usability and responsiveness is crucial in software design. According to ISO 9241-210, usability is the “degree to which a product or system can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context of use” [1]. In particular, the software interface should promote learnability, understandability, and operability [2]. Responsiveness corresponds to the amount of time required to complete an action after the user…

that of a plain, usable website. Usability is crucial online as it has direct impact on the potential revenue a website can produce. Similarly social media can also impact on an organisations bottom line. Social media allows retailers to increase awareness of a product or service, allowing businesses to simultaneously advertise products and engage in direct customer service by interacting with customers. This essay will therefore investigate “The Impact of Web Usability and Social Media on…

Usability Report on Cogstate’s Brief Battery Louis Gurrieri Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Executive Summary The Cogstate Brief Battery is a cognitive battery that is designed to assess aspects of working memory and processing speed. It is a computerised test comprised of tasks such as the Detection Task (DET), One Card Learning Task (OCL). All the tasks involve the use of playing cards as the stimuli for the tests, and by using cards it is easy to understand for…

store-bought PC and is mainly used as a server’s OS or to host online services. Both are marketed toward two very diverse groups of computer users, but can give their users a similar feeling of freedom and accessibility. Security, compatibility, and usability of Windows and Linux share various components from one another, but are unique between each operating system. Security is a principle component of any OS, and although both Windows…

Usability testing is a process used in evaluating how comfortable a service or product can be in achieving its targeted goal. Poor user experience can discourage users, studies show that more than 80% of online customers might not return to a site having experienced poor usability.1 A fantastic user experience can provide a competitive advantage because it increases user satisfaction by reducing the amount of time it takes for users to accomplish their goal on the website which in turn makes…

were calculated. After completing Tutorial 1: First Takeoff, participants completed the usability questionnaire. The usability of the Microsoft Flight Simulator X was rated on a 4-point scale, whereby a higher number indicates a higher usability score. Table 1 represents the means and standard deviations of usability questionnaire scores while Table 2 represents the means and agreement percentage for usability questionnaire. In table 2, the shaded boxes represent the highest mean scores…

In 1998, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) defined usability as being the “extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a specified context of use” [9]. Internationally there are many usability studies of EHR systems, targeting different clinical domains [10-15]. There are also efforts to standardize the usability assessment methods attempting to find a common ground, which is…

a rehabilitation setting or at home. A measure to evaluate users’ usability (i.e. feasibility) is the System Usability Scale (SUS). This questionnaire, developed by Brooke (1996),15 is a ten-item Likert scale which takes three usability criteria into account: effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction.16 A score of 60 percent up to a maximum 100 percent represents a feasible tool, where higher scores indicate better usability.15,17…

divide, questions remain about the extent to which current PHRs are capable of accommodating the demands of senior users taking into consideration the current lack of clearcut PHR specific usability guidelines to aid the designing of senior friendly PHRs, If PHR developers use existing senior-focused website usability guidelines for developing PHRs and whether these guidelines are suitable for evaluating PHRs. These are some questions current literature do not provide sufficient answers to. We…

this evaluation, ten heuristics were used to analyze the core functionalities of Wordpress, which include creating blogs, managing website content easily and conveniently for users with no or very knowledge of coding. The goal is to identify major usability flaws in the Wordpress website using Jacob Neilson’s ten heuristic evaluations: 1. Visibility of system status 2. Match…