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An approach towards development of evaluation framework for usability of smartphone applications


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Rahmat, Hazwani and Zulzalil, Hazura and Abd Ghani, Abdul Azim and Kamaruddin, Azrina (2015) An approach towards development of evaluation framework for usability of smartphone applications. In: 9th Malaysian Software Engineering Conference (MySEC 2015), 16-17 Dec. 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (pp. 178-182).

Abstract

As software and web applications run on the same machine, traditional usability evaluation techniques can be easily conducted for these applications. Whereas, mobile application operates on profoundly different machine and environment; smartphones. The unique characteristics of mobile phones pose challenges in adopting traditional usability evaluation techniques for evaluating usability of mobile applications. This implies that mobile applications also have different properties of user interface compared to software and web application. Thus, adopting traditional usability evaluation methods for mobile applications are prone towards unreliable usability analysis. Previous studies proposed usability evaluation framework for native mobile phone functionalities or physical constraints, limitations and mobility conditions of mobile devices based on user interface widgets. This paper proposed a framework with an integrated approach to usability evaluation for a smartphone app in view of abstraction levels of usability criteria and user interface elements of an app.


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Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Divisions: Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.1109/MySEC.2015.7475217
Publisher: IEEE
Keywords: Mobile usability; Smartphone apps; Usability evaluation method; Usability framework
Depositing User: Nabilah Mustapa
Date Deposited: 03 Jul 2017 09:25
Last Modified: 03 Jul 2017 09:25
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/55992
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