{"id":374,"date":"2012-05-05T22:04:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T22:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/?p=374"},"modified":"2012-05-11T10:10:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T10:10:52","slug":"usability-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/2012\/05\/05\/usability-evaluation\/","title":{"rendered":"Usability Evaluation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Totally five MSc Web Technology students were invited to take part in the usability evaluation of our application software. All of them have learnt the course \u201cINFO6002 Assistive Technologies and Universal Design\u201d and have some experience on the usability evaluation of software. The detailed information of them is listed at the bottom of this article.<\/p>\n<p>Usability is a quality attribute that assesses how easy user interfaces are to use. Therefore, according to the Alertbox&#8217;s usability definition, five quality components are set as the criteria to evaluate the usability of this software application. And the grade and mark range are explained as below:<\/p>\n<ul>\nA+ : Extremely Outstanding  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/files\/2012\/05\/AA.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-411\" \/><br \/>\nA : Excellent  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/files\/2012\/05\/A1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-409\" \/><br \/>\nB : Good  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/files\/2012\/05\/B1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-408\" \/><br \/>\nC : Just Ok  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/files\/2012\/05\/C1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-407\" \/><br \/>\nD : Poor  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/files\/2012\/05\/D1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-405\" \/><\/ul>\n<p>Then the evaluation reviews from the five testers are summarized as below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(1) Learnability<\/strong> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/files\/2012\/05\/A1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-409\" \/><br \/>\nIt is easy for the user to perform most of the basic tasks such as sign up or login, rank the contacts and view friend\u2019s profile, history information and social networking information. It may take some time for the users to learn the location sharing function. Hence the learnability of Adobe Reader is excellent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(2) Efficiency<\/strong> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/files\/2012\/05\/B1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-408\" \/><br \/>\nOnce the user learnt the design, it will take little time for the user to perform other tasks for example edit the personal information, share the location information with friends, view the photos, status, news or notes of friend\u2019s social networking account etc. So the efficiency of this software is good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(3) Memorability<\/strong> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/files\/2012\/05\/AA.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-411\" \/><br \/>\nAfter a period of time of not use, it is very easy for the users to establish proficiency again. Therefore the menorability of RankFirst is outstanding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(4) Errors <\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/files\/2012\/05\/C1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-407\" \/><br \/>\nUser will make little errors when using this software to rank and view the contacts, but may make errors when sharing the location information with different friends. Fortunately, it is not difficult to recover from the errors. Hence the errors performance of this software is medium.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(5) Satisfaction <\/strong> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/orientexpress\/files\/2012\/05\/B1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-408\" \/><br \/>\nMost of the people think it is a pleasant experience when using this software to visualize the relationship with the user\u2019s closest friends and bring close friend even closer. Hence the satisfaction of RankFirst is good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tester List: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\nChengqi Wang (<a href=\"https:\/\/secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk\/people\/cw5g11\">cw5g11@ecs.soton.ac.uk<\/a>)<br \/>\nBin Cai (<a href=\"https:\/\/secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk\/people\/bc2e10\">bc2e10@ecs.soton.ac.uk<\/a>)<br \/>\nRan Ding (<a href=\"https:\/\/secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk\/people\/rd4g11\">rd4g11@ecs.soton.ac.uk<\/a>)<br \/>\nMing Wen (<a href=\"https:\/\/secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk\/people\/mw7g11\">mw7g11@ecs.soton.ac.uk<\/a>)<br \/>\nFeng Wang (<a href=\"https:\/\/secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk\/people\/fw3e11\">fw3e11@ecs.soton.ac.uk<\/a>)<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Totally five MSc Web Technology students were invited to take part in the usability evaluation of our application software. All of them have learnt the course \u201cINFO6002 Assistive Technologies and Universal Design\u201d and have some experience on the usability evaluation of software. 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