TY - GEN
T1 - Formal specification of usability heuristics
T2 - 2nd International Workshop on Evidential Assessment of Software Technologies, EAST 2012
AU - Jiménez, Cristhy
AU - Rusu, Cristian
AU - Rusu, Virginica
AU - Roncagliolo, Silvana
AU - Inostroza, Rodolfo
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The challenge of developing highly usable interactive software systems has motivated several researchers to focus on providing new elements for designing and evaluating usability. The use of interaction and usability design patterns has been promoted to achieve this. A proposal to formally specify a new set of usability heuristics to be used in a heuristic inspection has appeared. It is still arguable if formal specification of such heuristics improves the performance of usability evaluations. This paper discusses the relevance of the use of patterns in the specification of usability heuristics, based on empirical evidence collected through query techniques. The results showed that formal specification of usability heuristics through patterns could facilitate the heuristic evaluations, regardless the evaluators' experience.
AB - The challenge of developing highly usable interactive software systems has motivated several researchers to focus on providing new elements for designing and evaluating usability. The use of interaction and usability design patterns has been promoted to achieve this. A proposal to formally specify a new set of usability heuristics to be used in a heuristic inspection has appeared. It is still arguable if formal specification of such heuristics improves the performance of usability evaluations. This paper discusses the relevance of the use of patterns in the specification of usability heuristics, based on empirical evidence collected through query techniques. The results showed that formal specification of usability heuristics through patterns could facilitate the heuristic evaluations, regardless the evaluators' experience.
KW - Empirical evidences
KW - Usability evaluation
KW - Usability heuristics
KW - Usability patterns
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84867501977&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2372233.2372249
DO - 10.1145/2372233.2372249
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84867501977
SN - 9781450315098
T3 - EAST'12 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Evidential Assessment of Software Technologies
SP - 55
EP - 60
BT - EAST'12 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Evidential Assessment of Software Technologies
Y2 - 22 September 2012 through 22 September 2012
ER -