Better bioinformatics through usability analysis

Better bioinformatics through usability analysis

MOTIVATION Improving the usability of bioinformatics resources enables researchers to find, interact with, share, compare and manipulate important information more effectively and efficiently. It thus enables researchers to gain improved insights into biological processes with the potential, ultimately, of yielding new scientific results. Usability 'barriers' can pose significant obstacles to a...

Improving Interoperability Through Better Re-usability

Interoperability among heterogeneous systems can be reached by adopting and combining at least two strategies: one interface-oriented and the other model-oriented. The first one refers to the idea of defining well-known interfaces that systems should expose. The second one refers to the idea of having standard, semantically-rich data model shared by various systems. The SCORM standard supports ...

Better Games Through Usability Evaluation and Testing

There are many reasons why usability is important in games. For one, playing games is voluntary. If the player has to struggle with problems that make playing less fun than doing something else, then there is nothing to stop the player from switching off the console. This is a serious risk as the user experience is very sensitive to usability problems. Even the smallest glitch or hiccup in the ...

Making brain-computer interfaces better improving usability through post-processing

Advancing Usability Evaluation Through Human Reliability Analysis

This paper introduces a novel augmentation to the Mohlich and Nielsen’s heuristic usability evaluation methodology. The SPAR-H human reliability analysis method was developed for categorizing human performance in nuclear power plants. Despite the specialized use of SPAR-H for safety critical scenarios, the method also holds promise for use in commercial off-the-shelf software usability evaluati...