The Usability Evaluation on the Interface Design of Digital Home Software
| Autor: | Chia-Hui Feng, 馮嘉慧 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 94 User Interface is the communication mean between users and information providers. Because of the fast developing information technologies, home entertainment user interface designs had been applied with many innovative attempts for one-way or two-way communication. The digitization of home electric appliances will be booming in the future, and the digital broadcast channels will be matured gradually. Though users are still facing the interface usability issues for operating applications, the designs of user interfaces can be improved with the feedbacks of the user behaviors. By improving the user behavior models with past experiences, home entertainment user interface designs can benefit from past user interfaces’ usability, readability, and structures. Moreover, the friendliness and the simplicities of user interface designs are the keys for boosting the products into the main stream of market sales even at early stages. Therefore, this study will emphasize on the current audio-visual interfaces and the improved interface models. The results will be evaluated with the relations between gender, experiences and the user interfaces. Furthermore, the test results will be the basis of the suggestions, which can be utilized for new design rules of audio-visual user interfaces. The conclusions are listed below: 1. Evaluation of graphics: Gender and past experiences play a major usability differences. Female with past experience can accomplish tasks more rapidly. 2. Evaluation of music: Neither gender nor any experience can affect the usability. In contrast, female with different interface achieve tasks differently. Also, improved interface (Interface #W) has better performance results. 3. Evaluation of movies: Users with past experiences have more advantages toward operating applications. 4. Evaluation of video clips: Different User interfaces affect the performance time remarkably. Gender is the key of performance for Interface #P; i.e. Male testers take more time than female testers. Females tend to take more time when accessing interface #I. |
| Databáze: | Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations |
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