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The Role of Usability Evaluation and Usability Testing Techniques in the Development of a Mobile System

Vaida Kadyte, Franck Tétard, The Role of Usability Evaluation and Usability Testing Techniques in the Development of a Mobile System. In: K. Hornbæk, J. Stage (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Improving the Interplay between Usability Evaluation and User Interface Design, NordiCHI 2004, HCI-Lab Report, Aalborg University, Department of Computer Science, 2004.

Abstract:

One characteristic of mobile application development projects is
short time-to-market. Short time-to-market implies that very little
time is available to application developers between the conception
phase of an application and its actual implementation and
launching. In the meanwhile, many activities should be
conducted, including user requirements elicitation and analysis,
application design, testing and evaluation. Along with these
activities, a number of decisions will be made, which will
influence the design of the user interface. In this paper, we focus
on the use of usability testing techniques, and how these influence
the design of the user interface in a mobile application
development project. We make an account of a usability test, the
techniques used, and the results obtained. The paper elaborates on
these results with a discussion on how the use of usability testing
techniques has influenced the project further on; this discussion is
supported by an interview and comments gathered from a
technical leader of the development team.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpKaTe04a,
  title = {The Role of Usability Evaluation and Usability Testing Techniques in the Development of a Mobile System},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Improving the Interplay between Usability Evaluation and User Interface Design, NordiCHI 2004},
  author = {Kadyte, Vaida and Tétard, Franck},
  series = {HCI-Lab Report},
  editor = {Hornbæk, K. and Stage, J.},
  publisher = {Aalborg University, Department of Computer Science},
  year = {2004},
}

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