Will World Wide Web user interfaces be usable?

Author

Burton, Craig ; Johnston, Lorraine

Author_Institution

Melbourne Univ., Parkville, Vic., Australia

fYear

1998

fDate

30 Nov-4 Dec 1998

Firstpage

39

Lastpage

44

Abstract

A usability study was carried out to verify that a moderately complex interaction task could be supported adequately by a straightforward Web interface. The application chosen for study was NEST an examination authoring tool mounted on the Web. The interface for NEST is of non-trivial complexity and provides a relevant case study. We report on heuristic evaluations of the system, which validated many of our design decisions. In particular, we find that a user´s expectation for interface performance and layout must be balanced against the client footprint size and the volume of the interaction with the server

Keywords

authoring systems; information resources; interactive systems; online front-ends; user interfaces; NEST; Web interface; World Wide Web user interfaces; case study; client footprint size; design decisions; examination authoring tool; heuristic evaluations; interaction task; interface performance; non-trivial complexity; usability study; Australia; Crystallization; Government; HTML; Testing; Usability; User interfaces; Web server; Web sites; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Human Interaction Conference, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 Australasian

Conference_Location

Adelaide, SA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-9206-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OZCHI.1998.732193

Filename

732193