LEARNING OBJECT REENGINEERING BASED ON PRINCIPLES FOR USABLE USER INTERFACE DESIGN

Robertas Damaševičius, Lina Tankelevičienė

2008

Abstract

We analyze the problem of reengineering of Learning Objects (LO) for web-based education. Such reengineering must be based on sound methodological background and design principles. We apply methods adopted from software engineering domain for redesigning the structure and user interface of LOs and aim both at usability and accessibility of learning material. We evaluate usability of a LO from the user interface point of view, following the user interface development principles common both for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and e-Learning domains. We propose the LO reengineering framework based on the user interface usability principles. In a case study, we demonstrate how these principles and recommendations can be used to reengineer a LO to improve its learnability, understandability and usability in general.

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Damaševičius R. and Tankelevičienė L. (2008). LEARNING OBJECT REENGINEERING BASED ON PRINCIPLES FOR USABLE USER INTERFACE DESIGN . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-40-1, pages 124-129. DOI: 10.5220/0001673401240129


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis08,
author={Robertas Damaševičius and Lina Tankelevičienė},
title={LEARNING OBJECT REENGINEERING BASED ON PRINCIPLES FOR USABLE USER INTERFACE DESIGN},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={124-129},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001673401240129},
isbn={978-989-8111-40-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,
TI - LEARNING OBJECT REENGINEERING BASED ON PRINCIPLES FOR USABLE USER INTERFACE DESIGN
SN - 978-989-8111-40-1
AU - Damaševičius R.
AU - Tankelevičienė L.
PY - 2008
SP - 124
EP - 129
DO - 10.5220/0001673401240129