Title :
Usabilty evaluation of the MumIES (Multimodal Interface based Education and Support) system for the children with special needs in Bangladesh
Author :
Zaman, Anum ; Bhuiyan, Moshiur
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Inf. Technol., Univ. of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Abstract :
In contemporary world, people become dependent on electronic devices. Technologies help to clarification and structure life in many ways to meet the need of the children oriented requirements. The children suffering from disabilities (e.g. autism) have desperate needs for elucidation and structure their life. MumIES is research based system to facilitate, support and manage their living. This paper works on MumIES system to evaluate usability of the system in perspective of Bangladesh. The paper shows that on the basis of case study users need supporting tools to access the children´s potentials and challenges and to give the full support to overcome disabilities. Usability evaluation has been considered one of the key challenges of MumIES system. The paper represents analysis, design of usability studies for the extraordinary users and environments.
Keywords :
assisted living; biomedical electrodes; medical computing; medical disorders; paediatrics; patient care; user interfaces; Bangladesh; Multimodal Interface based Education and Support; MumIES system; children oriented requirements; children potentials; clarification; contemporary world; disabilities; electronic devices; environments; extraordinary users; special needs; structure life; supporting tools; usability studies; usabilty evaluation; Autism; Educational institutions; Mobile communication; Testing; Usability; Usability; children with special need; multimodel interface;
Conference_Titel :
Informatics, Electronics & Vision (ICIEV), 2014 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dhaka
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-5179-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICIEV.2014.6850841