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HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Development of Portable Robotic Operation Terminals to Achieve Increased Safety and Usability and a Study on the Effectiveness o
In factory automation (FA) industry, it is essential for the working environment using industrial robots to be provided with measures that assure operator's safety and good us...
Hidetoshi Fukui, Satoshi Yonejima, Masatake Yamano...
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Using Activity Descriptions to Generate User Interfaces for ERP Software
Delivering tailor-made ERP software requires automation of screen and printed report creation to be cost effective. Screens generated directly from data structures tend to have poo...
Timothy O'Hear, Yassin Boudjenane
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Multimodal Corpus Analysis as a Method for Ensuring Cultural Usability of Embodied Conversational Agents
In this paper we propose the method of multimodal corpus analysis to collect enough empirical data for modeling the behavior of embodied conversational agents. This is a prerequisi...
Yukiko I. Nakano, Matthias Rehm
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Considering User Knowledge in the Evaluation of Training System Usability
A variety of software-based systems are being used as training media. There is not, however, an accepted approach to evaluating the usability of these systems. Traditional usabilit...
Clint A. Bowers, Janis A. Cannon-Bowers, Talib S. ...
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Flight Searching - A Comparison of Two User-Interface Design Strategies
The most usable user-interface is not necessarily the most popular. For example, the extent to which an interaction is based on graphics can depend highly on convention rather than...
Antti Pirhonen, Niko Kotilainen
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Mobile Phone Usability Questionnaire (MPUQ) and Automated Usability Evaluation
The mobile phone has become one of the most popular products amongst today's consumers. The Mobile Phone Usability Questionnaire (MPUQ) was developed to provide an effective s...
Young Sam Ryu
IJMI
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
A longitudinal study of usability in health care: Does time heal?
We report from a longitudinal laboratory-based usability evaluation of a health care information system. A usability evaluation was conducted with novice users when an electronic p...
Jesper Kjeldskov, Mikael B. Skov, Jan Stage
IJHCI
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Images of Usability
The term usability is ubiquitous in human-computer interaction, so much so that it is commonly used without definition. Rather than one established meaning of usability, there are,...
Morten Hertzum
PUC
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Evaluating teamwork support in tabletop groupware applications using collaboration usability analysis
Tabletop groupware systems have natural advantages for collaboration, but they present a challenge for application designers because shared work and interaction progress in differe...
David Pinelle, Carl Gutwin
PUC
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
Overcoming the Lack of Screen Space on Mobile Computers
One difficulty for interface design on mobile computers is lack of screen space caused by their small size. This paper describes a small pilot study and two formal experiments tha...
Stephen A. Brewster