Published October 30, 2015
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Publication
Heuristic evaluation on mobile interfaces: a new checklist
Description
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.
Additional details
Identifiers
- URL
- https://idus.us.es/handle/11441/30221
- URN
- urn:oai:idus.us.es:11441/30221