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Improving learnability and understandability of a Web application using an action-based technique

Zamli, Kamal Zuhairi and Shamsuddin, Nurul Afiqah and Sulaiman, Shahida and Syed-Mohamad, Sharifah Mashita (2011) Improving learnability and understandability of a Web application using an action-based technique. In: 2011 5th Malaysian Software Engineering Conference (MYSEC).

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MySEC.2011.6140678

Abstract

The emergence of the Internet era leads to the widely used of Web-based applications. Diverse demographic of users requires Web applications to have the features that enable different level of users to learn and understand their functionalities easily and instantly. Thus, a Web application that is learnable and understandable allows users to interact better and gain more advantages of using the Web application. Users' interactions with a system often reflect users' knowledge and understanding of the system. By studying users' interactions, Web developers can provide guidance to users, which promote the learnability and understandability of a Web application. The aim of this paper is to improve usability in the aspects of learnability and understandability through user interface design of a Web application. This paper proposes an action-based technique to improve users' learnability and understandability by studying users' interactions while they are interacting with the user interface of a Web application. Web developers can apply the proposed technique in designing a more usable Web application in the future.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:Usability, User interfaces, Electronic mail, Tutorials, Mice, Keyboards, user interface design, learnability improvement, understandability improvement, action-based technique, Internet, Web-based application, demography, user interactions, usability improvement
Subjects:T Technology > T Technology (General)
T Technology > T Technology (General) > T58.5-58.64 Information technology
T Technology > T Technology (General) > T58.6-58.62 Management information systems
Divisions:Computing
ID Code:45937
Deposited By: Haliza Zainal
Deposited On:10 Jun 2015 03:01
Last Modified:19 Jun 2017 04:33

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