Interactive analytical tool for usability analysis of mobile indoor navigation application

Author

Maly, Ivo ; Mikovec, Zdenek ; Vystrcil, Jan

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Czech Tech. Univ. in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

fYear

2010

fDate

13-15 May 2010

Firstpage

259

Lastpage

266

Abstract

Mobile navigation applications are the ones that must be tested in real environment in order to show their usability problems. Preparation of the study in real environment is complex issue and so is the analysis of the collected data from such study. Therefore we performed usability study of mobile navigation application for visually impaired users and implemented a set of visualization plugins for IVE tool. IVE tool and visualization plug-ins were used for pre-processing and for visual analysis of collected data from the usability study of mobile indoor navigation application. We found that with IVE we were able to find approximately same amount of usability issues as without this tool, but the IVE tool increased the speed of preprocessing and annotation creation i.e. the time necessary for the analysis has been reduced.

Keywords

data visualisation; handicapped aids; indoor communication; interactive systems; mobile computing; IVE tool; integrated interactive information visualization environment; interactive analytical tool; mobile indoor navigation application; usability analysis; visual analysis; visualization plug-ins; visually impaired user; Analytical models; Cameras; Data analysis; Data visualization; IP networks; Internet; Microphones; Navigation; Testing; Usability; Indoor navigation; Mobile application; Usability study; Usability testing; Visual analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Human System Interactions (HSI), 2010 3rd Conference on

Conference_Location

Rzeszow

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7560-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HSI.2010.5514559

Filename

5514559