scholarly journals EFFECT OF USER INTERFACE ON THE UTILIZATION AND EFFICACY OF EDUCATIONAL DIGITAL CONTENT AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KENYA

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. 244-260
Author(s):  
Samuel Nyaga Jesse ◽  
Joseph Murithi Jesse ◽  
Alice Omariba
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Phase 1 ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Instructional Process ◽  
Support Materials

The quality of educational support materials utilized in schools contributes greatly to the quality of education that is delivered during an instructional process. In recent years, there has been rapid expansion in digital content development, dissemination and access in schools. Many initiatives geared towards development and provisions of digital content to schools in Kenya have been witnessed. However, little has been done to ensure that the educational digital content design aspect such as user interface is appropriate for the instructional process. This study therefore investigated the effect of the user interface on the utilization and efficacy of educational digital content among secondary schools in Kenya. The study was guided by three specific objectives including to: analyze the layout of the various components of educational digital content in secondary schools; examine the navigational tools in the educational digital content and assess the effect of user interfaces on the utilization of educational digital content in secondary school. A descriptive survey design was used for the study which involved fifteen Economic Stimulus Programme phase 1 secondary schools in Nairobi County. Three research instruments, that is, teacher questionnaire, learners’ focus group discussion guide and digital content analysis sheet were used to collect the required data. The collected data was analyzed through descriptive statistics and presented in form of notes, tables, and figures. The study established that there were issues with interface and navigational tools in educational digital content user interface which affected content utilisation and consequently its efficacy. To address the design issues of the content, the study recommended that developers design appropriate user interfaces with adequate and standard navigational tools that will make educational digital content navigation and utilization easy for users.

scholarly journals INFLUENCE OF CURRICULUM DIGITAL CONTENT UTILISATION ON LEARNERS’ ASSESSMENT AND ACHIEVEMENT IN BIOLOGY AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KENYA

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 121-135
Author(s):  
Dr. Samuel Nyaga Jesse ◽  
Prof. John Nyamai Maundu ◽  
Prof. Nicholas Wanjala Twoli
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Phase 1 ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Instructional Process ◽  
Support Materials ◽  
Materials Used

The curriculum support materials used in an instructional process may influence assessment and achievement of learners. Curriculum support materials are both print and electronic in nature. One of the main electronic curriculum support materials used in schools is interactive digital content. In recent years, there has been rapid expansion in curriculum digital content access and utilization in Kenyan schools. However, little has been done to establish how utilization of curriculum digital content in the instructional process influences learners’ assessment and achievement. The study reported in this paper therefore investigated the influence of curriculum digital content utilisation on secondary school learners’ assessment and achievement in Biology. It was guided by two specific objectives including to: investigate the influence of the utilisation of Biology digital content on learners’ assessment and examine the influence of the utilisation of Biology digital content on learners’ achievement. A mixed methods approach that employed triangulation design was used in this study. Data was obtained from fifteen Economic Stimulus Programme-ICT phase 1 secondary schools in Nairobi County. Three instruments including Biology teacher questionnaire, learners’ focus group discussion guide and documents analysis sheet were used for data collection. The collected data was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics and presented in form of notes, tables, and graphics. This study found out that most assessment aspects improved with curriculum digital content utilization. In addition, utilisation of curriculum digital content had a positive influence on the achievement of secondary school learners in Biology. The study recommended that all schools, and not only ESP-ICT schools, be provided with proper infrastructure to enable learners and teachers access and utilize curriculum digital content in the instructional process. This would enhance assessment modes and learners achievement in secondary schools in Kenya.

scholarly journals Adapting the unified software development process for user interface development

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeljko Obrenovic ◽  
Dusan Starcevic
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Multimodal Interfaces ◽  
Software Developers ◽  
Software Engineers ◽  
Unified Process ◽  
Uml Models ◽  
Computer Interaction

In this paper we describe how existing software developing processes, such as Rational Unified Process, can be adapted in order to allow disciplined and more efficient development of user interfaces. The main objective of this paper is to demonstrate that standard modeling environments, based on the UML, can be adapted and efficiently used for user interfaces development. We have integrated the HCI knowledge into developing processes by semantically enriching the models created in each of the process activities of the process. By using UML, we can make easier use of HCI knowledge for ordinary software engineers who, usually, are not familiar with results of HCI researches, so these results can have broader and more practical effects. By providing a standard means for representing human computer interaction, we can seamlessly transfer UML models of multimodal interfaces between design and specialized analysis tools. Standardization provides a significant driving force for further progress because it codifies best practices enables and encourages reuse, and facilitates inter working between complementary tools. Proposed solutions can be valuable for software developers, who can improve quality of user interfaces and their communication with user interface designers, as well as for human computer interaction researchers, who can use standard methods to include their results into software developing processes.

On quality assessment of electronic training course interfaces

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-17
Author(s):  
T. B. Larina
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Qualitative Evaluation ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Human Machine Interaction ◽  
Software Products ◽  
E Learning

The development of e-learning, both in distance and mixed forms, becomes especially relevant in the modern educational process. A high-quality e-learning course is developed through the efforts of two parties: the teacher, who creates the methodological content, and the programmer, who creates the electronic shell of the course. The article substantiates the importance of quality issues in the development of a user interface for electronic educational resources, since the user of an electronic course deals with the direct implementation of educational material. The indicators for assessing the quality of software products in accordance with international and Russian standards and their applicability for assessing user interfaces of electronic educational resources are analyzed. The conclusion is made about the importance of the indicator “practicality” in relation to this type of software product as an indicator of an individual evaluation of the use of a product by a certain user or circle of users. The classical methods for assessing the quality of the human-machine interaction interface and the applicability of experimental and formal methods for assessing quality are considered. The analysis of modern approaches to the design of user interfaces based on UX/UI design is given. An assessment of the requirements and criteria for assessing the user interface from the standpoint of modern design is given. The tasks and features of the UX and UI components of the design process are analyzed. The essence of the modern term “usability” as an indicator of the interface evaluation is explained, and the qualitative evaluation criteria for this indicator are considered. The concept of UX testing is given, the main stages of this process are considered. The importance of taking into account the subjective psychological factors of interface perception is substantiated. The indicators for assessing the quality of user interfaces, based on the cognitive factors of its perception by a person, are analyzed.

Model of indicator of linearization of user interfaces of automated workplaces of operational units of emergency services

2021 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
S. V. Sokolov ◽  
◽  
A. N. Morozov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Relational Algebra ◽  
Interface Elements ◽  
Emergency Rescue ◽  
Pin Configuration

Introduction. The article presents a model of one of the possible indicators of the quality of user interfaces (PIN) of automated workplaces of operational units of emergency and emergency rescue services (EiASS), namely, the linearization indicator that takes into account the psychophysiological features of human perception of visual information. Goals and objectives. Reducing the response time of the operational units of the EiASS by reducing the time of their dispatching. Development of a mathematical model and an algorithm for calculating the linearization indicator of PIN elements (EPIN), which allows estimating the dispatch time depending on their relative location on the monitor. Methods. Methods of set theory and relational algebra were used to construct a PIN model and an algorithm for calculating the linearization index. To describe the PIN configuration, the concepts of an archipelago and a frame of interface elements are introduced. Results and discussion. The success of the EiASS actions largely depends on the dispatch time, during which the required number of units is determined and sent. Therefore, the time spent on solving dispatching tasks is one of the most common and objective indicators of the quality of the PIN. The best of the investigated automated workplaces will be the one with the specified time less. However, the time indicator gives an idea only about the relative time - the time of operation of one automated workplace relative to another. And it does not give any idea of the absolute time that would be spent on solving the problem by some abstract automated workplace with an optimal EPIN configuration. For this reason, an indicator that is sensitive to the PIN configuration has been developed. The indicator gives an answer to the question of why one automated workplace is better than another, and can be used to optimize the layout of the PIN. Conclusions. Based on the proposed model, an algorithm for calculating the numerical values of the linearization indicator of user interface elements sensitive to their size and relative position on the monitor of the EiASS operator is developed. This allows you to optimize the user interface according to the criterion of time for solving tasks and, accordingly, reduce the dispatching time of the operational units of the EiASS. Keywords: operational units, user interface, quality, linearization indicator, navigation, sets, archipelago, frame

scholarly journals Assessing Quality of Various Aspects of Secondary Education in Punjab

2018 ◽  
Vol III (IV) ◽  
pp. 201-211
Author(s):  
Saqib Shahzad ◽  
Ishtiaq Hussain ◽  
Makhdoom Ali Syed
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Visual Aids ◽  
Academic Needs ◽  
Instructional Process ◽  
Audiovisual Aids ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Teachers Training

This study examined various aspects of quality in secondary education of Punjab. Population of the study was constituted all principals, teachers and students of degree colleges, intermediate colleges and higher secondary schools. A randomized sample of forty degree colleges was selected comprizing forty intermediate colleges and forty higher secondary schools (gender-wise equal). Participants’ responses were collected via questionnaire. After the data tabulation, it was examined and explained in the light of research objectives. Statistical tests like mean, standard deviation, standard error of mean and estimated population mean were employed. The study revealed that from the findings of the study A.V Aids were not appropriately used, teachers’ pay scales were not satisfactory and secondary level curriculum did not meet the academic needs. Therefore, the researchers consider provision of modern audio-visual aids to the institutions to be important, besides the teachers training and motivation to utlize these audiovisual aids for enhancement of instructional process. Moreover, it is suggested that adequate budgetry allocation for education and improving the pay scales of the teachers will enhance the quality of education.

scholarly journals Ergonomic examination of user interfaces in developed information systems

Ergodesign ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Павел Падерно ◽  
Pavel Paderno ◽  
Николай Назаренко ◽  
Nikolay Nazarenko
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
User Interface ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
State Standards ◽  
Interface Quality

The problem of user interface ergonomic examination significance of the information systems under development is considered. Basic domestic state standards regulating the problems of user interface development are shown. A difference in the approaches to the estimate of user interface quality of operators, designers and ergonomists is defined.

scholarly journals User Interfaces

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Bueno Unzeta ◽  
Jan de Boer ◽  
Ruben Delvaeye ◽  
Nikodem Dernegowski ◽  
Bertrand Deroisy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Interface Elements ◽  
Individual User ◽  
Save Energy ◽  
The Impact

This report shows, that the impact of a good User Interfaces (UI) is not only affecting the usability and comfort for the user, but is also a major key to save energy. At least as important for effectiveness to the quality of individual interfaces is consistency in the meaning of individual user interface elements (visual, conceptual, auditory, etc.)

scholarly journals QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF A USER INTERFACE BASED ON THE MENTAL TIME OF PERFORMING THE USER TASKS OF THE SUBJECT AREA

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. K. Grigoriev ◽  
A. S. Ilyushechkin ◽  
M. A. Ovchinnikov
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
User Interface ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Interface Quality ◽  
Software Product ◽  
The Subject ◽  
User Tasks ◽  
Time Required

The overall development of information systems and their increasingly significant impact on all areas of the society expressed in such terms as "information society", etc., determines the increasing importance of user interfaces. Moreover, the quality and adequacy of the interface to the tasks of the subject area becomes the determining parameter when choosing a specific organization software product for computer support of the organization. The study of user interfaces involved with the 70s of the last century. Some methods of interface quality research, in particular, the GOMS method is used to date. However, the use of advanced training technology for mass professional users of information systems for the study of interfaces allows to effectively evaluate the interface in the learning process without using the GOMS method. This article is devoted to this issue. The article deals with the method of quantitative evaluation of the quality of the user interface in the form of such characteristics as errors and mental time of the tasks of the subject area. The structure of time of performing tasks of the subject area is analyzed. Mental time is allocated as the characteristic that chiefly determines the usability of the user interface. Mental time is based on the total time of the step, the calculation time at this step, and the mechanical time required for a person to perform an action that causes the step to be performed. It is shown that the use of anticipated training technology of mass professional user can significantly simplify the allocation of mental time by eliminating the time of the task computer. In the structure of time, the mechanical time required for a person to perform an action that causes the step to be performed is essential. In the GOMS method some standard numerical characteristics are used to estimate mechanical time. However, a hypothesis is put forward, and it is experimentally shown that a statistically significant minimum time for performing actions can be used as mechanical time. This hypothesis was experimentally confirmed. The method and results of this experiment are presented in the article. Developed on this basis, the methodology for assessing the quality of the interface can be used when retraining users in the process of transition of organizations to domestic software in order to evaluate the interfaces.

CURRENT SITUATION OF MANAGEMENT AND USE OF TEACHING EQUIPMENT UNDER ORIENTATIONS FOR DEVELOPING STUDENT CAPACITY IN LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN DIEN BIEN DISTRICT, DIEN BIEN PROVINCE IN THE PRESENT PERIOD

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pham Van Phuc ◽  
Ngo Quang Son
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Equipment Management ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Lower Secondary Schools

Last time, management of equipment, maintenance and use of teaching equipment in lower secondary schools in Dien Bien district, Dien Bien province has been paid more attention, making important contributions to keeping sustainably, improve the quality of education in the district. Every year the lower secondary schools have been given funding and have plans to equip additional teaching equipment. Most lower secondary schools have full-time staff in charge of teaching equipment; with equipment storage rooms, cabinets are gradually added; laboratories and classrooms have been built more and more; have a system of records of teaching equipment management established; The work of inventorying and purifying teaching equipment periodically was also concerned. The movement of innovating teaching methods has made education managers and teachers more interested in using teaching equipment effectively. The positive management measures have caused many teachers to use teaching equipment as an integral part of the lesson, helping the quality of the lessons be increasingly improved to meet the requirements of changes. New teaching methods. Education administrators, teachers, teaching equipment staff are becoming more and more serious in teaching device management. However, the reality of teaching equipment management still reveals many limitations: The management of teaching equipment in schools is still administrative and ineffective. The equipment has no overall and detailed plans; The procurement of teaching equipment is not guaranteed in terms of quantity, lack of uniformity (some are redundant, some are lacking), quality is limited (durability, accuracy is not guaranteed, some new ones are not used); preservation still has many shortcomings; lack of specialized staff; lack of storage space or insufficient storage; lack of cabinets, prices, laboratories, subject classrooms; specially managing the use of teaching equipment is not tight; Many places teachers have not paid attention to use, ineffective use. The situation of “teaching vegetarianism” is still common, teaching equipment used is still movement, mostly used only in special cases such as competitions for good teachers, lectures or when there is a delegation check; There are many cases of information technology abuse in teaching. The effective use of teaching equipment oriented student capacity development is not much. The management of the use of teaching equipment oriented to develop student competencies in the current trend of Industry Revolution 4.0 is a matter of great concern to educational managers.Thus, the task of surveying the situation of managing the effective use of teaching equipment, finding subjective and objective reasons in order to propose measures to effectively manage the use of teaching equipment in the direction of developing students’ practical capacities and contributing to improving the quality of teaching in secondary schools in Dien Bien district, Dien Bien province is a very important and necessary task today.

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