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Usability Evaluation for User Interface Design of Student Support System: Mixed Method Study

The efficiency of a website depends on how usable the UI user interface, (UI) is and how well it is structured. The aim of this research was to try and understand the issues with the Arion System. Arion is the student information system used by Auckland University of Technology. We conducted three experimental studies to examine the usability and to improve the user experience of student who use Arion. Three main methods were used namely; survey, open card sorting and situated co-inquiry. The survey was used to inform the study and collect more information about users. The open card sorting used to redesign the navigation menu for the system. Then the Situated co-inquiry used to discover the user’s current unexpected or unforeseen ideas, which may be helpful for future research.

A cross-sectional study on current status of rare disease related health information based on WeChat official accounts in China

Objective: To understand the current status of rare disease related health information release in WeChat official accounts in China. Methods: We used a series of key words containing "rare diseases" and the names of the top 30 rare diseases in hospitalizations in China to search WeChat official accounts. Eligible articles were selected by systematic sampling. All including WeChat official accounts and articles were evaluated to extract the basic information. Results: No relevant WeChat official accounts were found for 14 rare diseases (46.67%). Most of the WeChat official accounts (52.17%) were initiated by patients and patient groups. No significant difference was detected in the total number of articles between the official accounts related with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and non-TCM related ones, however, the frequency of the monthly information release was significantly higher in TCM related official accounts (P<0.001), while the average reading number of articles was significantly higher in non-TCM related official accounts (P<0.001). Nearly 80% of the WeChat official accounts had navigation menu, and the average reading number of official accounts with menus was larger than those without menus. The top three topics were rare disease diagnosis and treatment knowledge (46.00%), public welfare activity for rare diseases (12.81%) and uncorrelated things (8.65%), while the first three leading topics were cutting-edge information, public welfare activity and patient story, respectively. Conclusions: The scale for rare disease related health information release based on WeChat official accounts in China has been basically formed, but it is still in development stage. Many improvements should be made in their coverage of rare diseases, release frequency, topic and form. It is urgent to establish or recreate some high-quality WeChat official accounts in order to provide precise information and effectively facilitate the prevention and treatment of rare diseases.

The German Online Editions of Nietzsche's Works: A User's Perspective

ABSTRACT This article considers the two most important German online editions of Nietzsche's works, Nietzsche Source and Nietzsche Online, from a user's perspective. After a description of the print editions on which they are based (KGW and KGB), an assessment is made of their completeness, their textual reliability, the usefulness of their navigation menus and the usefulness of their search functions. The article finds that there are noteworthy differences in completeness and reliability, that the accessibility of the posthumous notes could be improved in both cases, and that Nietzsche Source has a better search function than Nietzsche Online. The ideal online edition would be an augmented mixture of both editions.

E-Coaching: the DianaWeb study to prevent breast cancer recurrences.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, for which the survival rate is increasing over time. Growing evidence are showing that the effect of lifestyle could have the same weight of the effect of the usual clinical-pathological risk factors on survival rate. The DianaWeb study responds to the pressing request of patients diagnosed with breast cancer to know the most advanced point of scientific research on the prevention of recurrences, to have a virtual space to meet, where to receive advice and practical information for the daily management the lifestyle change. DianaWeb is a community-based participatory research, dedicated to breast cancer patients, aimed to monitor lifestyle, provide them tips to encourage sustainable lifestyle changes, and to analyze clinical outcomes. In order to achieve these aims, DianaWeb uses a specific interactive website (http://www.dianaweb.org/). The web architecture has been designed essential and light, with a rigorous implantation that brings the figure of the woman to the center. In order to humanized the project the acronym used to identify the study was Diana (Diet and Androgens), a classical female name, who was illustrated as a female avatar, aimed to symbolize all women. The graphical interface was developed using seven pastel tones colors, which become a fundamental elements of the layout, such as frame, navigation menu, and separation interspaces. The project started in 2015, and in 4 days the web site was visited by more than 1000 people. A total of 2823 persons enrolled in the study, but 2182 did not send the full documentations, 61 persons abandoned the study, 641 timely answered to the questionnaires. The high number of participants' interaction within the web page, confirmed the high usability of the web page and the great interest of patients. Prevention of breast cancer recurrences with low cost technologies, easily available to everybody, is a priority for both public health and public finances.

Preventing Self-Harm in the Nonpsychiatric Health Care Setting.

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A Collaboration Between Game Developers and Rehabilitation Researchers to Develop a Web-Based App for Persons With Physical Disabilities: Case Study.

BackgroundIndividuals with a disability and their partners, who often provide care, are both at risk for depression and lower quality of life. Mobile health (mHealth) interventions are promising to address barriers to mental health care. Rehabilitation researchers and software development researchers must collaborate effectively with each other and with clinical and patient stakeholders to ensure successful mHealth development.ObjectiveThis study aimed to aid researchers interested in mHealth software development by describing the collaborative process between a team of rehabilitation researchers, software development researchers, and stakeholders. Thus, we provide a framework (conceptual model) for other teams to replicate to build a Web-based mHealth app for individuals with physical disability.MethodsRehabilitation researchers, software development researchers, and stakeholders (people with physical disabilities and clinicians) are involved in an iterative software development process. The overall process of developing an mHealth intervention includes initial development meetings and a co-design method called design box, in which the needs and key elements of the app are discussed. On the basis of the objectives outlined, a prototype is developed and goes through scoping iterations with feedback from stakeholders and end users. The prototype is then tested by users to identify technical errors and gather feedback on usability and accessibility.ResultsIllustrating the overall development process, we present a case study based on our experience developing an app (SupportGroove) for couples coping with spinal cord injury. Examples of how we addressed specific challenges are also included. For example, feedback from stakeholders resulted in development of app features for individuals with limited functional ability. Initial designs lacked accessibility design principles made visible by end users. Solutions included large text, single click, and minimal scrolling to facilitate menu navigation for individuals using eye gaze technology. Prototype testing allowed further refinement and demonstrated high usability and engagement with activities in the app. Qualitative feedback indicated high levels of satisfaction, accessibility, and confidence in potential utility. We also present key lessons learned about working in a collaborative interdisciplinary team.ConclusionsmHealth promises to help overcome barriers to mental health intervention access. However, the development of these interventions can be challenging because of the disparate and often siloed expertise required. By describing the mHealth software development process and illustrating it with a successful case study of rehabilitation researchers, software development researchers, and stakeholders collaborating effectively, our goal is to help other teams avoid challenges we faced and benefit from our lessons learned. Ultimately, good interdisciplinary collaboration will benefit individuals with disabilities and their families.

Animations in Cross-Platform Mobile Applications: An Evaluation of Tools, Metrics and Performance.

Along with the proliferation of high-end and performant mobile devices, we find that the inclusion of visually animated user interfaces are commonplace, but that research on their performance is scarce. Thus, for this study, eight mobile apps have been developed for scrutiny and assessment to report on the device hardware impact and penalties caused by transitions and animations, with an emphasis on apps generated using cross-platform development frameworks. The tasks we employ for animation performance measuring, are those of (i) a complex animation consisting of multiple elements, (ii) the opening sequence of a side menu navigation pattern, and (iii) a transition animation during in-app page navigation. We employ multiple performance profiling tools, and scrutinize metrics including frames per second (FPS), CPU usage, device memory usage and GPU memory usage, all to uncover the impact caused by executing transitions and animations. We uncover important differences in device hardware utilization during animations across the different cross-platform technologies employed. Additionally, Android and iOS are found to differ greatly in terms of memory consumption, CPU usage and rendered FPS, a discrepancy that is true for both the native and cross-platform apps. The findings we report are indeed factors contributing to the complexity of app development.

RANCANG BANGUN SIMULASI TERJADINYA LISTRIK DENGAN SUMBER DAYA SAMPAH BERBASIS MULTIMEDIA (STUDI KASUS : TPST BANTAR GEBANG)

Learning or material on processing waste to produce electricity is needed because demand for electricity increases, while uncontrolled trash. Uncontrolled increase in litter causes uncontrolled pollution in the air anyway. Coupled with the fossil fuel emissions that are contributing to pollution and environmental pollution are greatest. Processing environmentally friendly fuels such as waste must be developed. Learning about the waste that exists today only still lacking and is still text-based or in book form. This leads to a lack of public interest to learn the material on waste management. The existence of this application, a solution to these problems. This application is designed in the form of exciting multimedia learning so as to increase public interest in the field of waste management. In addition in the form of multimedia, this application is also easy to operate, because the location and navigation menu uncomplicated. Waste processing in this application refers to the existing landfill gas systems in Power Plant Waste (PLTSa) Bantargebang.

Towards Usability Guidelines for the Design of Effective Arabic Websites

The Arabic websites constitute 1% of the web content with more than 225 million viewers and 41% Internet penetration. However, there is a lack of design guidelines related to the selection and use of appropriate font type and size and images in Arabic websites. Both text and images are vital multimedia components of websites and thereby were selected for investigation in this study. The herein paper performed an indepth inspection of font and image design practices within 73 most visited Arabic websites in Saudi Arabia according to Alexa Internet ranking in the first quarter of 2019. Our exhaustive analysis showed discrepancies between the international design recommendations and the actual design of Arabic websites. There was a considerable variation and inconsistency in using font types and sizes between and within the Arabic websites. Arabic Droid Kufi was used mostly for styling page titles and navigation menus, whilst Tahoma was used for styling paragraphs. The font size of the Arabic text ranged from 12 to 16 pixels, which may lead to poor readability. Images were used heavily in the Arabic websites causing prolonged site loading times. Moreover, the images strongly reflected the dimensions of the Saudi culture, especially collectivism and masculinity. Current Arabic web design practices are compared against the findings from past studies about international designs and lessons aiming at ameliorating the Arabic web design are inferred.

Protecting Patients with Latex Allergies.

: The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System is a confidential, statewide Internet reporting system to which all Pennsylvania hospitals, outpatient-surgery facilities, birthing centers, and abortion facilities must file information on incidents and serious events.Safety Monitor is a column from Pennsylvania's Patient Safety Authority, the authority that informs nurses on issues that can affect patient safety and presents strategies they can easily integrate into practice. For more information on the authority, visit www.patientsafety.pa.gov. For the original article discussed in this column or for other articles on patient safety, click on "Advisories and Events" and then "Pennsylvania Patient Safety Advisory" in the top navigation menu.

Development of multimedia-based learning media interactive on a subject of cooling systems in Vocational School of Industry Yogyakarta

This study aims to produce cooling system learning media in an easy way to operate and suitable to be used in teaching and learning activities. This type of research was Research and Development with the procedure of developing the media through 10 stages. The technique of collecting data used the validation sheet. The data analysis technique used quantitative analysis. The result of the media expert validation shows that the flash-based cooling system learning media is feasible with an average of 96.4% which included three aspects of assessment, namely: aspects of media display, use of images, sound and evaluation questions, and navigation systems. The result of the material expert validation showed that the learning media of flash-based engineering images was very feasible with the average of 85.4% which included three aspect of assessment, namely: aspects of material relevance, an aspect of learning materials content, and aspect of multimedia ease of operation. The results of user evaluations indicate that flash-based cooling system learning media was very feasible, with the percentage of 84.5% in small group trials and 82.6 in large group trials covering 5 aspects, namely: an aspect of material relevance, a content of learning materials, convenience operation, navigation menu, and system display design.

Assessment of usability and viability in clinical practice of the Nabelia mHealthCare Platform to support integrated care management of patients with pulmonary hypertension

Introduction : Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a rare, life-threating disease that requires complex long term management, often involving coordination of actions across different agencies and jurisdictions. This is a challenging scenario to the effective delivery of care. Adoption of an integrated care (IC) approach with a sensible use of enabling technology can be a way of successfully dealing with this complexity. Aims : a) To assess the usability and potential feasibility in clinical practice of the Nabelia mHealthCare Platform, in the IC management of patients with Pulmonary Hypertension and; b) to identify areas in need of improvement in collaboration with patients and professionals Material and method : This qualitative research study involved two distinct groups chosen for convenience: 1) Patients’ group, patients with a pulmonary arterial hypertension (HAP) diagnose and/or chronic thromboembolic hypertension (HPTEC); and, 2) Health professionals’ group. In both groups, we carried out : 1) user tests followed by administration of a questionnaire (adaptation of the SUMI questionnaire items); 2) Focus groups sessions (1 patients, 1 professionals). A total of 23 people participated in this study (12 patients, 7 practitioners and 4 nurses). Informed consent was obtained from all participants. The study was completed by a heuristic assessment of the platform that was undertaken by a specially trained researcher. Results : Professionals highlighted that the Platform facilitated: 1) the sharing of information (notably in the case of treatment prescribed), 2) coordination of actions (remote monitoring data) and 3) communication with patients. Patients’ appraisals of the platform differed. Globally, it was viewed as an interesting tool and patients especially valued the accessibility to the information about their condition and the easiness to share this information with the different health professionals. Perceptions on the benefits of using the mobile application to manage everyday life depended on patients’ age and treatments’ complexity. Thus, younger patients were more favorable towards its use while elders were more reluctant. Heuristic evaluation. The aspects that were best ranked where those related with the clarity of the interface (adequate management of spaces and text, visual structure of the information, easily recognizable links), consistency in its design (elements, actions, language, navigation), and architecture (organizational system, elements and terms used in the navigation menu). Usability elements in need of attention were those related with system status, information flow, aid in its actions, clarity of information, control by user, readability and configuration. The application is easy to learn and uses standard tags and a language close to professionals with helpful graphics though in some parts readability could be improved. Control of the application by the user was acceptable at the current status of development. Conclusions : At its current stage of development the Nabelia mHealthCare Platform has a good usability and can be potentially applied in the management of patients with pulmonary hypertension. Professionals and patients think that the application facilitates the management of the disease, allows closer follow-up and monitoring and improves coordination across levels of health care. Attention to acceptance and usability issues in the group of older patients is, however, required.

Large-scale holistic approach to Web block classification: assembling the jigsaws of a Web page puzzle

Web blocks are ubiquitous across the Web. Navigation menus, advertisements, headers, footers, and sidebars can be found almost on any website. Identifying these blocks can be of significant importance for tasks such as wrapper induction, assistance to visually impaired people, Web page topic clustering, and Web search among a few. There have been several approaches to the problem of Web block classification, but they focused on specific types of blocks, trying to classify all of them with one single set of features. In our approach each classifier has its own unique extendable set of features, with the features being extracted through the declarative-based BERyL language, and the classification itself is done through application of machine learning to these feature sets. In our approach we propose to take a holistic view of the page where all block classifiers in the classification system interact with each other, and accuracies of individual classifiers get improved through this interaction. The holistic approach to Web block classification is implemented through a system of constraints in our block classification system BERyL. The evaluation results with the holistic approach applied to the BERyL classification system achieve higher F1 results than for individual non-connected classifiers, with the average F1 of 98%. We also consider the distinction between classification of domain-independent and domain-dependent blocks and propose a large-scale solution to the problem of classification for both of these block types.

Hazards Detection System Based on 3D Panorama for Tailings Dam in Mining

Tailings dam is a key facility for the mining process, which is also the major hazards for the surrounding environments. It could cause catastrophic accidents and severe personal injuries if the tailings dam failed. The occurrence of tailings dam accidents will greatly damage the life and property of the people in the surrounding areas and damage the ecological environment around the region. In recent years, Chinese government has introduced policies to step up investigation and management of mine tailings potential hazards and results in great achievements. However, a large part of the tailings dam still has prominent safety problems due to long-term site selection, design, system construction and management. Flood drainage system plays an important role both in the mining process and in the tailings dam safety. Through the analysis of the causes of tailings dam accidents, this paper discoveries that a number of accidents caused by the failure or damage of flood drainage facilities, and the risk in flood season is especially prominent. The safety hazards detection of the flood drainage is vital to secure the tailings dam safety. A safety hazards detection system based on 3D panorama technology has been achieved in this paper. It provided a new way to detect the safety hazards remotely on portable devices. Firstly, the 3D panorama data acquisition device was designed and developed. The functions and requirements of 3D panorama data acquisition device were investigated according to the actual environment of flood culvert. The structure and hardware of the device were calculated according to the target functions. Three-dimensional environment image data for rapid acquisition, and the use of feature matching and optical flow principle of the collected images were spliced to generate a 3D panoramic image of flood drainage of tailings dam in mining. The safety hazards detection system includes 3D panorama client and panorama images cloud database. It has five layers which are basic configuration layer, interface presentation layer, data management layer, function module layer and background management layer. The functional module layer has five functional modules, including mine personnel management module, tailings pond panoramic scene module, culvert potential danger detection module, interface menu navigation module and material information management module. It can help safety inspectors to detect and investigate potential safety hazards in flood drainage culverts, which would strengthen the safe operation of tailings dam and maintain the safe and sustainable production of mines. This system has been applied to the tailings dam of a mine to collect 3D environmental image data of the flood drainage culvert. The panoramic image is spliced to generate a panoramic view through the cloud platform. The results show that this system can be used in mine drainage culvert safety hazards detection.

Long Nav or Short Nav?: Student Responses to Two Different Navigational Interface Designs in LibGuides Version 2

This study used two successive phases of usability testing to evaluate two different versions of a Communication 430 course LibGuide. The first version of this guide had a longer, more visually complex navigation menu, with more course-related research information directly accessible through this menu. The second version had a shorter, less complex menu that offered less directly accessible information. Twenty-four of the 33 students enrolled in the class (73%) tested either one version or the other for usability in completing tasks that simulate course-related research assignments, ultimately indicating they found the longer navigation menu more usable. This paper may be the first to describe the engagement of students enrolled in a course in testing a LibGuide dedicated specifically to that course. As such, it will be of interest to many academic librarians and instructional design professionals.

Omission of High-Alert Medications: A Hidden Danger.

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A User eXperience Evaluation Framework for Mobile Usability

The worldwide mobile software market has grown dramatically since feature phones became popular in the early 1990s. In practice, mobile usability — which can be defined for a resource-constrained device in two ways, namely, User eXperience (UX) and User Interface (UI) — has been regarded as the key to gaining superiority in terms of both market share and customer loyalty. Unfortunately, de facto standards for software design and the development process, such as Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Rational Unified Process (RUP), do not seem to promote mobile usability in a systematic manner in practice. This paper proposes a systematic and generalizable approach to modeling and evaluating the properties of mobile usability, herein treating it as a first-class software quality from the perspective of software engineering. We devise a UX evaluation framework for mobile usability, which we call UX Evaluation Framework (UEF) throughout this paper. A UX is specified by inter-scene interactions between users and terminals of software products using Extended Menu Navigation Viewpoints (EMNVs); then, a model checker, NuSMV, is adopted to observe whether the EMNV model meets a set of given UX properties. Importantly, the analysis and design of RUP is extended to support the co-design of UX and UI so that major roles, activities and artifacts in the UX and UI can be explicitly monitored and controlled by stakeholders. Through case studies, we demonstrate that UEF works properly to treat software products that prioritize mobile usability. Consequently, UEF plays a key role in filling the gap between two research disciplines to address usability: software engineering and human–computer interactions.

Quality Costing Technique: An Appropriate Financial Indicator for Reducing Costs and Improving Quality in the Organizations

SelectedWorks Behnam Neyestani Toggle navigation menu profile imageSelected Works of Behnam Neyestani FollowingUnpublished PaperQuality Costing Technique: An Appropriate Financial Indicator for Reducing Costs and Improving Quality in the Organizations(2017)Behnam Neyestani, De La Salle University Edit DownloadAbstractQuality costing method is one of the total quality management (TQM) tools. This technique is also the most significant financial performance indicator, which can assist the companies to monitor and control their expenses related the quality of products and services during production process, in order to ensure that the firm is able to satisfy the requirements of the customers. Accordingly, the adoption of this method can cause that the companies save money and being more competitive in the market. However, the main purpose of this paper was to explore and discuss regarding the aspects of this TQM tool, and how it can detect unnecessary costs and maintain good quality for products and services with an aim to attain highest level of customer satisfaction in the organizations.

Exploratory Usability Testing of User Interface Options in LibGuides 2

Online research guides offer librarians a way to provide digital researchers with point-of-need support. If these guides are to support student learning well, it is critical that they provide an effective user experience. This article details the results of an exploratory comparison study that tested three key user interface options in LibGuides 2—number of columns, placement of the navigation menu, and visual integration with the library website—to understand their impact on guide usability. In addition to informing our own design choices, our findings can serve as the basis for further investigation into the connections between student learning and the usability of the LibGuides user interface.

Comparison of Surface Gestures and Air Gestures for In-Vehicle Menu Navigation

Background Traditionally, in-vehicle systems have been operated using physical controls such as buttons and knobs. The array of tasks that these controls can efficiently accomplish in modern invehicle systems has outpaced their capabilities. The use of gestures for navigating interfaces has become increasingly prevalent solution to these shortcomings. However, best practices for the use of gestures have not been developed. leaving designers at risk of implementing systems that can increase a driver’s workload and raise the risk of accidents. Methods The current paper examines four gesture interaction techniques for completing a menu navigation task in terms of their effects on drivers’ primary driving and secondary menu navigation performance, as well as self-reported workload and preferences. Participants used either a tap (point) gesture or a swipe gesture either in the air or on a gesture surface. Results It was found that air gestures were slower than surface gestures and led to higher workload. Swipe gestures were lower workload than tap gestures, and the surface swipe gesture led to the lowest workload overall. Conclusions These results indicate that, at present, surface gestures are a lower workload alternative to air gestures that retain some of their flexibility and naturalistic potential.