Evaluation Methods of Investments to Mobile Applications and Smart Technology in Construction Projects

Towards Sustainability in E-Banking Website Assessment Methods

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12177000 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (17) ◽

pp. 7000 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Witold Chmielarz ◽

Marek Zborowski

Keyword(s):

Mobile Applications ◽

Financial Services ◽

Reference Model ◽

Evaluation Methods ◽

Commercial Banking ◽

Banking Services ◽

Multiple Factors ◽

Services Evaluation ◽

Preliminary Study ◽

Computer Literate

Nowadays, banking services have evolved from offline financial services to online platforms available in the form of websites and mobile applications. While multiple methods exist for evaluation of generic-purpose websites, the appraisal of banking services requires a more sophisticated approach. Multiple factors need to be taken into consideration, revolving not only around technical and usability aspects of the sites, but also considering the economic and anti-crisis factors. Moreover, due to the fact that one of the groups of people interested in banking services assessment are potential clients, which might or might not be technically and theoretically literate, a sustainable approach to banking services evaluation is needed. The main contribution of this paper is a sustainable approach balancing the evaluation accuracy with usage simplicity and computational complexity of evaluation methods. Also, a reference model for banking services evaluation is provided. In practical terms, a set of all significant commercial banking services in Poland is assessed. Last, but not least, a preliminary study of practical applicability of various evaluation methods amongst computer-literate banking clients is performed.

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Usability Evaluation Methods for Mobile Applications

Handbook of Research on User Interface Design and Evaluation for Mobile Technology ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-871-0.ch044 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 745-758 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Regina Bernhaupt ◽

Kristijan Mihalic ◽

Marianna Obrist

Keyword(s):

Mobile Devices ◽

User Interfaces ◽

Mobile Applications ◽

Laboratory Testing ◽

Field Evaluation ◽

Evaluation Methods ◽

Usability Evaluation ◽

The Past ◽

Usability Evaluation Methods ◽

Selection Of

Evaluating mobile applications and devices is particularly challenging given the variability of users, uses, and environments involved. This chapter introduces usability evaluation methods (UEMs) for mobile applications. Over the past decades various usability evaluation methods have been developed and implemented to improve and assure easy-to-use user interfaces and systems. Since most of the so-called ‘classical’ methods have demonstrated shortcomings when used in the field of mobile applications, they were broadened, varied, and changed to meet the demands of testing usability for mobile applications. This chapter presents a selection of these ‘classical’ methods and introduces some methodological variations for testing usability in the area of mobile devices and applications. It argues for a combination of both field evaluation methods and traditional laboratory testing to cover different phases in the user-centered design and development process.

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Mobile Phone Maintainability Prediction using MCDM Methodology

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering - 2 ◽

10.35940/ijrte.c1078.1083s219 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (3S2) ◽

pp. 410-415

Keyword(s):

Software Engineering ◽

Mobile Phone ◽

Mobile Applications ◽

Research Work ◽

Evaluation Methods ◽

Day By Day

For software engineering it is essential to build a software that is qualitative from every perspective. As the interest of the clients in mobile applications getting higher and higher day by day, the quality turns out to be a major concern. Ample number of researches shows issues with the maintenance of the applications once they are public. Different studies showed various evaluation methods for estimating maintainability but only few were defined for mobile applications. Also, none of the approaches propounded gives a specified way for evaluating maintainability of these portable applications. The present research work, examines the key idea of maintenance of apps considering 9 vital factors for the estimation of maintainability utilizing an MCDM approach to evaluate the identified factors.

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Empirical Investigation of Usability Evaluation Methods for Mobile Applications Using Evidence-Based Approach

Microservices in Big Data Analytics ◽

10.1007/978-981-15-0128-9_9 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 95-110

Author(s):

Priyanka Mathur ◽

Swati V. Chande

Keyword(s):

Mobile Applications ◽

Empirical Investigation ◽

Evaluation Methods ◽

Usability Evaluation ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Usability Evaluation Methods

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EVALUATION METHODS FOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management ◽

10.3846/1392-3730.2009.15.349-359 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 15 (4) ◽

pp. 349-359 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Moonseo Park ◽

Yongsik Chu ◽

Hyun-Soo Lee ◽

Wooyoung Kim

Keyword(s):

Construction Projects ◽

Net Present Value ◽

Investment Decision ◽

Evaluation Methods ◽

Rate Of Return ◽

Systematic Bias ◽

Internal Rate Of Return ◽

Present Value ◽

Decision Tools ◽

Construction Market

Financial evaluation methods such as Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR) are not fully adequate for accounting three practical aspects of construction projects: reinvestment rate, actual amount of required investment, and firm available funds. In a certain type of projects, this inadequacy often results in the inapplicability of NPV, multiple or no IRR problem, systematic bias of IRR, and inconsistent decision signal and ranking between NPV and IRR. Many modified methods have been developed, but hardly succeeded in reflecting construction market reality in an integrated manner. To address this issue, Project Present Value, Project Rate of Return, and Firm Rate of Return are proposed together with an investment decision framework. The proposed methods are designed to be free from all those problems, while incorporating market reality in them. As a result, construction practitioners would have more reliable and economically meaningful decision tools, which lead to the success of their projects. Santrauka Finansiniai įvertinimo metodai, kaip dabartinės vertės (DV) arba vidinės grąžos (VG), neadekvačiai vertina tris praktinius statybos projektų aspektus: reinvestavimo greitį, tikrąjį investicijų ir kapitalo poreikį. Dėl to neadekvatumo tam tikrai projektų rūšiai minėtųjų metodų iš viso neįmanoma pritaikyti. Sukurta daug modifikuotų metodų, tačiau jie sunkiai atspindi statybos rinkos tikrovę integruota forma. Tam pasiūlyta investicinių sprendimų sistema, į kurią integruoti trys metodai: dabartinės projekto vertės, projekto vidinės grąžos ir įmonės apyvartumo. Pasiūlytieji metodai gali įvertinti rinkos realybę. Dabar statybos gamybininkai turės patikimesnes ekonomiškai reikšmingas priemones sprendimams priimti ir galės sėkmingiau įgyvendinti savo projektus.

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Usability Evaluation of Multimodal Interfaces

Multimodal Human Computer Interaction and Pervasive Services ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-386-9.ch024 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 443-455 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Regina Bernhaupt

Keyword(s):

Mobile Devices ◽

User Interfaces ◽

Mobile Applications ◽

Multimodal Interaction ◽

Evaluation Methods ◽

Usability Evaluation ◽

Multimodal Interfaces ◽

The Past ◽

Usability Evaluation Methods ◽

Selection Of

In order to develop easy-to-use multimodal interfaces for mobile applications, effective usability evaluation methods (UEMs) are an essential component of the development process. Over the past decades various usability evaluation methods have been developed and implemented to improve and assure easyto- use user interfaces and systems. However, most of the so-called ‘classical’ methods exhibit shortcomings when used in the field of mobile applications, especially when addressing multimodal interaction (MMI). Hence, several ‘classical’ methods were broadened, varied, and changed to meet the demands of testing usability for multimodal interfaces and mobile applications. This chapter presents a selection of these ‘classical’ methods, and introduces some newly developed methods for testing usability in the area of multimodal interfaces. The chapter concludes with a summary on currently available methods for usability evaluation of multimodal interfaces for mobile devices.

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