Experimental Design of Metrics for Domain Usability

Michaela Bačíková, Lukáš Galko, Eva Hvizdová

2017

Abstract

Usability and user experience gain more and more attention each year. Many large software companies consider it a priority. However, domain usability issues are still present in many common user interfaces. To improve the situation, in this paper we present our design of domain usability metric. In order to design the metrics, we performed an experiment with two surveys, one in a general domain and one in a specific domain of gospel music. The results confirm our previous experimental results and indicate, that five aspects of domain usability are not equal, but have different effect on overall usability and user experience. The results of the latter survey was used to design weights of domain usability aspects and these weights were used to calculate the overall domain usability of a user interface. Given that we know the number of all components in the analysed user interface, the designed metrics measures the domain usability in percentage. The designed metrics can be used to formally measure the domain usability of user interfaces in manual or automatized techniques and this way, we believe, improve the situation regarding interfaces that do not consider the domain dictionary of their users.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Bačíková M., Galko L. and Hvizdová E. (2017). Experimental Design of Metrics for Domain Usability.In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: CHIRA, ISBN 978-989-758-267-7, pages 118-125. DOI: 10.5220/0006502501180125

in Bibtex Style

@conference{chira17,
author={Michaela Bačíková and Lukáš Galko and Eva Hvizdová},
title={Experimental Design of Metrics for Domain Usability},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: CHIRA,},
year={2017},
pages={118-125},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006502501180125},
isbn={978-989-758-267-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: CHIRA,
TI - Experimental Design of Metrics for Domain Usability
SN - 978-989-758-267-7
AU - Bačíková M.
AU - Galko L.
AU - Hvizdová E.
PY - 2017
SP - 118
EP - 125
DO - 10.5220/0006502501180125