Usability Heuristics Validation through Empirical Evidences: A Touchscreen-Based Mobile Devices Proposal

Author

Inostroza, Rodolfo ; Rusu, Calin ; Roncagliolo, Silvana ; Jimenez, C. ; Rusu, Virginica

Author_Institution

Pontificia Univ. Catolica de Valparaiso, Valparaíso, Chile

fYear

2012

fDate

12-16 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

60

Lastpage

68

Abstract

Usability is a main issue which definitely affects the quality and success of any interactive product. Touchscreen-based mobile devices are very popular nowadays, the development of new devices and related applications is demanded by users around the world. These new products should be designed following a user-centered approach, which require systematic usability evaluations. In this paper, we present the validation of a new set of usability heuristics for touchscreen-based mobile devices, through experiments.

Keywords

interactive devices; mobile radio; product design; touch sensitive screens; user centred design; device development; interactive product quality; systematic usability evaluations; touchscreen-based mobile devices; usability heuristics validation; user-centered approach; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Performance evaluation; Standards; Usability; User interfaces; empirical evidences; touchscreen-based mobile devices; usability evaluation; usability heuristics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC), 2012 31st International Conference of the

Conference_Location

Valparaiso

ISSN

1522-4902

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2937-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCCC.2012.15

Filename

6694074