A Usability Checklist for the Usability Evaluation of Mobile Phone User Interface

@article{citeulike:1579659, abstract = {In the last decade, the research of the usability of mobile phones has been a newly evolving area with few established methodologies and realistic practices that ensure capturing usability in evaluation. Thus, there exists growing demand to explore appropriate evaluation methodologies that evaluate the usability of mobile phones quickly as well as comprehensively. This study aims to develop a task-based usability checklist based on heuristic evaluations in views of mobile phone user interface (UI) practitioners. A hierarchical structure of UI design elements and usability principles related to mobile phones were developed and then utilized to develop the checklist. To demonstrate the practical effectiveness of the proposed checklist, comparative experiments were conducted on the usability checklist and usability testing. The majority of usability problems found by usability testing and additional problems were discovered by the proposed checklist. It is expected that the usability checklist proposed in this study could be used quickly and efficiently by usability practitioners to evaluate the mobile phone UI in the middle of the mobile phone development process.}, author = {Ji, Yong G. and Park, Jun H. and Lee, Cheol and Yun, Myung H. }, citeulike-article-id = {1579659}, journal = {International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction}, keywords = {checklist, mobile, momento, ui, usability}, month = {June}, number = {3}, pages = {207--231}, posted-at = {2007-08-21 11:39:22}, priority = {2}, title = {A Usability Checklist for the Usability Evaluation of Mobile Phone User Interface}, url = {http://www.leaonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15327590ijhc2003\_3?journalCode=ijhc}, volume = {20}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1579659 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1579659 N2 - In the last decade, the research of the usability of mobile phones has been a newly evolving area with few established methodologies and realistic practices that ensure capturing usability in evaluation. Thus, there exists growing demand to explore appropriate evaluation methodologies that evaluate the usability of mobile phones quickly as well as comprehensively. This study aims to develop a task-based usability checklist based on heuristic evaluations in views of mobile phone user interface (UI) practitioners. A hierarchical structure of UI design elements and usability principles related to mobile phones were developed and then utilized to develop the checklist. To demonstrate the practical effectiveness of the proposed checklist, comparative experiments were conducted on the usability checklist and usability testing. The majority of usability problems found by usability testing and additional problems were discovered by the proposed checklist. It is expected that the usability checklist proposed in this study could be used quickly and efficiently by usability practitioners to evaluate the mobile phone UI in the middle of the mobile phone development process. IS - 3 JF - International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction EP - 231 TI - A Usability Checklist for the Usability Evaluation of Mobile Phone User Interface VL - 20 SP - 207 KW - checklist KW - mobile KW - momento KW - ui KW - usability AU - Ji, Yong AU - Park, Jun AU - Lee, Cheol AU - Yun, Myung PY - 2006/06// UR - http://www.leaonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15327590ijhc2003_3?journalCode=ijhc ER -