Heuristic Evaluation on Mobile Interfaces: A New Checklist
Joint Authors
Yáñez Gómez, Rosa
Cascado Caballero, Daniel
Sevillano, José-Luis
Source
Issue
Vol. 2014, Issue 2014 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.1-19, 19 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2014-09-11
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
19
Main Subjects
Medicine
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
The rapid evolution and adoption of mobile devices raise new usability challenges, given their limitations (in screen size, battery life, etc.) as well as the specific requirements of this new interaction.
Traditional evaluation techniques need to be adapted in order for these requirements to be met.
Heuristic evaluation (HE), an Inspection Method based on evaluation conducted by experts over a real system or prototype, is based on checklists which are desktop-centred and do not adequately detect mobile-specific usability issues.
In this paper, we propose a compilation of heuristic evaluation checklists taken from the existing bibliography but readapted to new mobile interfaces.
Selecting and rearranging these heuristic guidelines offer a tool which works well not just for evaluation but also as a best-practices checklist.
The result is a comprehensive checklist which is experimentally evaluated as a design tool.
This experimental evaluation involved two software engineers without any specific knowledge about usability, a group of ten users who compared the usability of a first prototype designed without our heuristics, and a second one after applying the proposed checklist.
The results of this experiment show the usefulness of the proposed checklist for avoiding usability gaps even with nontrained developers.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Yáñez Gómez, Rosa& Cascado Caballero, Daniel& Sevillano, José-Luis. 2014. Heuristic Evaluation on Mobile Interfaces: A New Checklist. The Scientific World Journal،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-19.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1049619
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Yáñez Gómez, Rosa…[et al.]. Heuristic Evaluation on Mobile Interfaces: A New Checklist. The Scientific World Journal No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-19.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1049619
American Medical Association (AMA)
Yáñez Gómez, Rosa& Cascado Caballero, Daniel& Sevillano, José-Luis. Heuristic Evaluation on Mobile Interfaces: A New Checklist. The Scientific World Journal. 2014. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-19.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1049619
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1049619