scholarly journals Why They Still Cannot Use Their Library Catalogues

10.28945/2395 ◽  
2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Warren
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Design Patterns ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Evaluation Technique ◽  
Heuristic Evaluation ◽  
Current Design

The paper examines the Urica World Wide Web Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) from three different perspectives. The heuristic evaluation technique showed up a number of problems at the detail level. For broader concerns this needed to be supplemented by other approaches. The use of user interface design patterns and Laurel's concepts of Computers as Theatre showed up the fact that the design needs to be more object oriented with the tools secondary and the catalogue primary. This problem applies to many library catalogues and not just Urica. One limitation of the current design patterns is they provide little help with aesthetic issues. No one technique for evaluating user interfaces is sufficient as problems range from the micro to the macro level.

scholarly journals Usability of Telemedicine Mobile Applications during COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia: A Heuristic Evaluation of Patient User Interfaces

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1574
Author(s):  
Raniah N. Aldekhyyel ◽  
Jwaher A. Almulhem ◽  
Samar Binkheder
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
User Interface ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Heuristic Evaluation ◽  
Severity Rating ◽  
Telemedicine Application ◽  
Interface Usability ◽  
Mhealth Apps

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted the use of telemedicine application (apps), which has seen an uprise. This study evaluated the usability of the user interface design of telemedicine apps deployed during the COVID-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia. It also explored changes to the apps’ usability based on the pandemic timeline. Methods: We screened ten mHealth apps published by the National Digital Transformation Unit and selected three telemedicine apps: (1) governmental “Seha”® pp, (2) stand-alone “Cura”® app, and (3) private “Dr. Sulaiman Alhabib”®app. We conducted the evaluations in April 2020 and in June 2021 by identifying positive app features, using Nielsen’s ten usability heuristics with a five-point severity rating scale, and documenting redesign recommendations. Results: We identified 54 user interface usability issues during both evaluation periods: 18 issues in “Seha” 14 issues in “Cura”, and 22 issues in “Dr. Sulaiman Alhabib”. The two most heuristic items violated in “Seha”, were “user control and freedom” and “recognition rather than recall”. In “Cura”, the three most heuristic items violated were “consistency and adherence to standards”, “esthetic and minimalist design”, and “help and documentation” In “Dr. Sulaiman Alhabib” the most heuristic item violated was “error prevention”. Ten out of the thirty usability issues identified from our first evaluation were no longer identified during our second evaluation. Conclusions: our findings indicate that all three apps have a room for improving their user interface designs to improve the overall user experience and to ensure the continuity of these services beyond the pandemic.

Engineering-Oriented User Interface Design Patterns

2010 ◽  
Vol 102-104 ◽  
pp. 880-884
Author(s):  
Shi Hong Feng
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Design Patterns ◽  
Feature Space ◽  
User Interface Design ◽  
Coarse Grained ◽  
Not Given ◽  
Knowledge Use ◽  
Development Tool

Patterns have become a more effective way on the knowledge use of the HCI domain. These patterns are mainly oriented to different tasks, which are too coarse-grained to be easily implemented. And it is not given that how to use these patterns to built user interfaces in engineering way. Furthermore, many different patterns are oriented to different models in the model based on user interface (UI) development, which are hard to be integrated into the UI development tool. In point of increasing UI knowledge reuse, every UI is divided into many presentation units (PU), which reduces the grain of UI. Next, the UI feature space is given through three facets and various relations among these facets. Therefore, the Engineering-oriented User Interface Design Pattern (EUIDP) is proposed from the interior model, the presentation model and the operation model. As a case, the Grid EUIDP is explicitly described according to the form of EUIDP. Finally, the conclusion and the further work are discussed.

scholarly journals Workflow User Interfaces Patterns

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 62-68
Author(s):  
Josefina Guerrero-García ◽  
Juan Manuel González-Calleros ◽  
Jean Vanderdonckt
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
User Interface ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Design Patterns ◽  
Markup Language ◽  
Description Language ◽  
Workflow Pattern ◽  
User Interface Description Language

A collection of user interface design patterns for workflow information systems is presented that contains forty three resource patterns classified in seven categories. These categories and their corresponding patterns have been logically identified from the task life cycle based on offering and allocation operations. Each Workflow User Interface Pattern (WUIP) is characterized by properties expressed in the PLML markup language for expressing patterns and augmented by additional attributes and models attached to the pattern: the abstract user interface and the corresponding task model. These models are specified in a User Interface Description Language. All WUIPs are stored in a library and can be retrieved within a workflow editor that links each workflow pattern to its corresponding WUIP, thus giving rise to a user interface for each workflow pattern.

scholarly journals Analisis User Interface terhadap Website Berbasis E-Learning dengan Metode Heuristic Evaluation

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-277
Author(s):  
Yemima Monica Geasela ◽  
Pranchis - Ranting ◽  
Johanes Fernandes Andry
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
User Interface ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Human Factor ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Visual Design ◽  
Heuristic Evaluation ◽  
Support Element ◽  
E Learning

AbstrakDengan berkembangnya teknologi informasi, meningkat pula cara pembelajaran yang semakin modern salah satunya dengan menggunakan e-learning. E-learning adalah suatu model pembelajaran yang menggunakan website sebagai media dasarnya. Dengan adanya e-learning, pembelajaran dapat dilakukan dimanapun dan kapanpun. E-learning yang baik adalah e-learning yang dapat meningkatkan kemampuan pengguna yang menggunakannya. Desain antarmuka menjadi salah satu elemen paling penting yang dapat mendukung kualitas edukasi di dunia maya. Oleh karena itu, penelitian ini bertujuan mengevaluasi desain antarmuka suatu website berbasis e-learning menggunakan human factors dan pendekatan interpretasi ergonomik, untuk meningkatkan usability dan usefulness sebuah sistem. Metode yang dipakai dalam penelitian ini adalah evaluasi heuristik yang terdiri atas 10 aturan prinsipnya yang terkenal dalam melakukan penilaian atas suatu desain antarmuka. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan secara umum penilaian terhadap desain interface dan ketermudahan penggunaan suatu website yang memiliki basis e-learning ditemukan telah cukup baik, akan tetapi masih terdapat beberapa hal yang perlu ditingkatkan, terutama yang bersesuaian dengan karakteristik dalam ketermudahan penggunaan. Kata Kunci: website, e-learning, heuristic, usability AbstractWith the development of information technology, studying process is one of the affected aspect by technology and becoming a new modern studying method called e-learning. E-Learning is a studying model that use website as it basis. With the help of e-learning, studying process can be done anywhere and anytime. A good E-Learning is one that can increase the overall skill of the user. Visual design becoming one of the support element that can help the education quality in cyberspace. Therefore, this research purposes aims is to design an e-learning website using human factor and ergonomi interpretation approaches, to improve the usefulness for user and the usefulness for system. The method used in this research is a method that consist of ten rule that was famous for designing. The result of general research about user interface design and the content about e-learning with a basis of website was good enough, but there is still some problem that must be fixed especially those relating with user experience. Keywords: website, e-learning, heuristic, usability

scholarly journals Recomendações de design universal para uso de Mobile User Interface Design Patterns

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Nozaki ◽  
Luciana Zaina
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Design Patterns ◽  
User Interface Design ◽  
Mobile User

O uso de Padrões de Design da Interface do Usuário (User Interface Design Patterns) (UIDP) é visto como uma boa prática para o desenvolvimento de softwares interativos. No entanto, ao aplicar esses padrões, o designer da interface pode introduzir problemas de acessibilidade no software. O objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar o processo de avaliação de um conjunto de recomendações, para uso de UIDP no desenvolvimento de aplicações para dispositivos móveis que evitem a inserção de problemas de acessibilidade.

scholarly journals A new user interface for a text proofreading web portal in a digitization and crowdsourcing context

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-122
Author(s):  
Pietro Murano
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Task Time ◽  
Degree Of Control ◽  
Mass Digitization ◽  
Empirical Experiment ◽  
Satisfaction Measures

Purpose This paper aims to present a new user interface design for text proofreading portals in a digitization and crowdsourcing context. Several of the current proofreading portals lack usability in their user interfaces. The aim of the new design is to increase user performance and satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach An empirical experiment has been conducted to evaluate the new user interface as a comparison with 18thConnect – TypeWright proofreading portal. Two of the main measures involved times and errors and this approach is considered to be good for these kinds of measures allowing a good degree of control. Nevertheless, personal opinions are also very important and these are elicited by means of a post-experiment questionnaire. Findings The data were statistically analysed and overall the new user interface helped users to perform better in terms of task time. Errors were also better with the new user interface, but the differences were not statistically significant. Furthermore, users were more satisfied with the new user interface. User satisfaction measures were mostly statistically significant. Originality/value As far as has been ascertained, there have been no systematic studies evaluating a new design with an existing design of a proofreading portal. Therefore, this research is considered to be original, and if implemented widely, it would be very valuable to the mass digitization aims.

A Global Process for Model-Driven Approaches in User Interface Design

2012 ◽  
pp. 219-234
Author(s):  
Sybille Caffiau ◽  
Patrick Girard
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
User Interface Design ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Design Standards ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Iterative Development ◽  
Advanced User ◽  
Interactive Application

In user interface design, model-driven approaches usually involve generative solutions, producing interface by successive transformations of a set of initial models. These approaches have obvious limitations, especially for advanced user interfaces. Moreover, top-down design approaches (as generative approaches are) are not appropriate for interactive application development in which users need to be included in the whole design process. Based on strong associations between task models and dialogue models, the authors propose a global process, which facilitates the design of interactive applications conforming to their models, including a rule-checking step. This process permits either to start from a task model or a user-defined prototype. In any case, it allows an iterative development, including iterative user modifications, in line with user-centered design standards.

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