Consistent Interface Research Articles

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With the rapid adoption of smart devices inrecent times, the mobile internet-based app market has witnessed significantgrowth across various sectors such as securities, education, and manufacturing.Generally, providers of mobile app services strive to address users' new demandsand challenges by updating their software. Analyzing user responses to updatesis crucial for successful maintenance. In this study, we propose a method toanalyze user reactions using topic modeling techniques applied to user reviews.To achieve this, from the Mobile Trading Systems (MTS) available on the Google Play Store, we selected “Kiwoom Securities Hero Moon S” due to itshighest number of reviews to gather review data. We employed the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling technique to extract topics from thereviews and analyzed the trend of topic changes before and after app updates.The analysis revealed that the topic of connection errors, which dominated post-update reviews, showed a gradually stabilizing trend. However, the user authentication topic indicated an increase in diverse complaints after the app update, highlighting the need to actively address these issues. Additionally,in the case of MTS, the screen layout is very crucial to users, and numerous complaints arose when users' configured screens were reset. Therefore, it is evident that maintaining a consistent user interface is essential for usersatisfaction.

Cross-Platform Interface Design: To Conform or Not to Conform?

This article investigates whether brand consistent vs. platform convention conforming user interface design affects user acceptance of a software. Cross-platform software functions on different platforms. One component of software development cost is interface design cost. This cost can be high if the same software’s user interface must be uniquely designed to match the look-and-feel of each platform and built and tested across the entire spectrum of supported platforms. Interface built cost can be dramatically reduced if a brand consistent look-and-feel is adopted for the interface across all platforms. Our results show that brand consistent interface design does not hinder user acceptance of a software compared with an interface that conforms to the conventions of the platform. The conclusion is that cost savings associated with brand consistent user interface design can be achieved without the loss of user acceptance or trust.

Tidyqpcr

Software is intended to be a tool used to complete tasks efficiently. However, the intent is not always matched by the execution as users may become frustrated with design idiosyncrasies or suboptimal implementations. In order to support reproducibility and the user experience, research software needs to be rewarded on its usability and documentation as well as its functionality. Quality documentation needs to cover design decisions, functionality, and how to contribute to the software. Here we describe our work to tackle the reproducibility crisis in qPCR analysis by creating the open-source software package tidyqpcr. We also introduced the extensive infrastructure available for creating software documentation in the R programming language. 
 Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is a fundamental technique in molecular biology to detect and quantify DNA and RNA. However, the ubiquitous use of qPCR across research disciplines has led to inconsistencies in implementation and reporting, leading to a reproducibility crisis and the publication of the Minimum Information in a Quantitative PCR experiment (MIQE) guidelines. In addition, each stage of a qPCR experiment can be customised to extract a wide variety of information from numerous biological processes. Developing versatile and reliable software built with best-practices and thorough documentation would promote reproducible qPCR analysis across diverse disciplines. tidyqpcr is an open source software package for user-friendly qPCR analysis using the tidyverse suite of R packages. tidyqpcr offers a consistent user interface and structure for qPCR analysis, within the tidyverse paradigm of spreadsheet-like rectangular data frames and generic functions that build up complex analyses in a series of simple steps. tidyqpcr focuses on experimental design in microwell plates, and relative quantification using changes in quantification cycle (∆Cq). tidyqpcr has been improved in response to software review from the rOpenSci non-profit initiative, which co-ordinates with the Journal of Open Source Software. Overall, tidyqpcr empowers scientists to conduct reproducible, flexible, and best-practice compliant quantitative PCR analysis.

Optimization of User Interface Consistency Design by User Acceptability Evaluation

Optimization of User Interface Consistency Design by User Acceptability Evaluation

Online Learning Transition Based on Internet and E-Commerce Classroom Learning Management System (LMS)

In the era of digital information, especially in the field of education, online learning methods are currently developing rapidly in the learning and teaching process. The aim of this project is to provide a uniform and consistent user interface in the new learning management system (LMS) for students and faculties and to promote super users who will assist the faculty in a smooth transition from. The curriculum template is provided in the LMS for online learning processes or called e-Learning and has various training opportunities with super users that are interactive so that online learning will be effective and quality. (57%) report results from faculty feeling competent or very competent (36%) in their ability to use. Canvas ™ LMS after project implementation; There are several survey comments reflecting a positive response to the transition to Canvas ™. This project produces quality, student-centered online learning. Where is in accordance with the standardized template framework.

RLumCarlo: Simulating Cold Light using Monte Carlo Methods

Abstract The luminescence phenomena of insulators and semiconductors (e.g., natural minerals such as quartz) have various application domains. For instance, Earth Sciences and archaeology exploit luminescence as a dating method. Herein, we present the R package RLumCarlo implementing sets of luminescence models to be simulated with Monte Carlo (MC) methods. MC methods make a powerful ally to all kinds of simulation attempts involving stochastic processes. Luminescence production is such a stochastic process in the form of charge (electron-hole pairs) interaction within insulators and semiconductors. To simulate luminescence-signal curves, we distribute single and independent MC processes to virtual MC clusters. RLumCarlo comes with a modularized design and consistent user interface: (1) C++ functions represent the modeling core and implement models for specific stimulations modes. (2) R functions give access to combinations of models and stimulation modes, start the simulation and render terminal and graphical feedback. The combination of MC clusters supports the simulation of complex luminescence phenomena.

Open user interface architecture for digital multivendor ship bridge systems

Equipment found on ship bridges rarely offer consistent user interface design across the numerous systems that seafarers interact with. It is well documented in human-computer interaction research that consistency is an important aspect for reducing human error and increasing user ability to efficiently use digital systems. Current workplace regulations and design guidance do not provide a clear path towards interface consistency between different maritime vendors and equipment. Because of this, there is a need to develop new and consistent frameworks for the design of modern ship bridges and their systems. We approach such a problem by asking the following question: How can the organization of ship bridge systems enable consistent user interfaces for multivendor ship bridges? To answer this, we present work from an industry-driven project seeking to regulate the relationships between ship bridge (i) integrators and (ii) system vendors. This paper presents a user interface architecture that systematically distinguishes between system integrators and system vendors. This user interface architecture then applies web development processes and methods that, we argue, establish a framework for increased design consistency. Furthermore, this architecture presents a new path for ship bridge user interface development that adapts current state-of-the-art user interface methodologies to a maritime context. We argue that by implementing the proposed architecture framework the industry can capitalize by saving costs, increasing innovation and improving the quality of ship bridges, thereby optimizing the work environment for seafarers and overall ship safety.

GoCTF: Geometrically optimized CTF determination for single-particle cryo-EM

Preferred particle orientation represents a recurring problem in single-particle cryogenic electron microcopy (cryo-EM). A specimen-independent approach through tilting has been attempted to increase particle orientation coverage, thus minimizing anisotropic three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction. However, focus gradient is a critical issue hindering tilt applications from being a general practice in single-particle cryo-EM. The present study describes a newly developed geometrically optimized approach, goCTF, to reliably determine the global focus gradient. A novel strategy of determining contrast transfer function (CTF) parameters from a sector of the signal preserved power spectrum is applied to increase reliability. Subsequently, per-particle based local focus refinement is conducted in an iterative manner to further improve the defocus accuracy. Novel diagnosis methods using a standard deviation defocus plot and goodness of fit heatmap have also been proposed to evaluate CTF fitting quality prior to 3D refinement. In a benchmark study, goCTF processed a published single-particle cryo-EM dataset for influenza hemagglutinin trimer collected at a 40-degree specimen tilt. The resulting 3D reconstruction map was improved from 4.1 Å to 3.7 Å resolution. The goCTF program is built on the open-source code of CTFFIND4, which adopts a consistent user interface for ease of use.

Student and Faculty Transition to a New Online Learning Management System

BackgroundOnline learning is rapidly emerging within nursing education. The purpose of this project was to provide a unified and consistent user interface in the new Canvas™ learning management system (LMS) for students and faculty and to promote super users who would assist faculty in a seamless transition from Oncourse™ to Canvas™. Implementation PlanCurriculum templates were provided within the LMS for nursing courses and numerous training opportunities with designated super users. ResultsFaculty reported feeling either competent (57%) or very competent (36%) in their ability to use Canvas™ LMS after implementation of the project; survey comments reflected an overall positive response to the transition to Canvas™. ConclusionThis project resulted in a framework of standardized templates that are student centered and effective for quality online learning.

Extending Driver-Vehicle Interface Research Into the Mobile Device Commons: Transitioning to (nondriving) passengers and their vehicles

For more than a century, driver?vehicle interaction research has been mainly focused on interfaces that assist drivers as they interact with their vehicles with very limited attention paid to interacting with people and their agents moving within the surrounding commons. With the emergence of semiautomated and self-driving vehicles in combination with mobile phones, internal vehicular interfaces will gradually transition to (nondriving) passengers and their vehicles. These newly transitioning interfaces share (or will require) similar specifications to the ones currently used to control many consumer electronics. As mobile devices continue to grow in usage, people are creating secondary interface experiences that are related to but may not be attached to vehicles. It is suggested that future automotive IT infrastructure and interaction specifications should follow from general human?computer interaction guidelines, with the understanding that there will be a high heterogeneity to manage in these contexts. A critical point of vehicle interface is between self-driving cars, manually steered vehicles, and other, so-called vulnerable road users (VRUs), whose attention may also be divided between the road and their mobile phones. When humans, as passengers in semiautomated or automated vehicles, are no longer directly responsible for human?human/interpersonal communication and negotiation, new interactive paradigms must be considered and designed to protect people in manually controlled cars and VRUs within shared road space. Thus, automotive user interface research must also formally extend outward to include intervehicular interaction rather than being limited to the mainly intravehicular environment, as is the present case. In this article, we will examine broader issues of user interface (UI) consistency in vehicular contexts and present recommendations for future automotive UI research.

Electronic Prescribing Usability: Reduction of Mental Workload and Prescribing Errors Among Community Physicians.

Medical errors are common in hospitals, and research is always needed to find ways of reducing these. This study attempts to address three gaps in this field. First, the factors leading to the reduction of mental workload and its relationship with the reduction of prescribing errors by improving electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) usability have not been empirically examined before. Second, the past research in the field of e-prescribing usability lacks robust theoretical models. Third, there are no existing studies to examine the direct influences of user interface consistency and error prevention with the reduction of mental workload and prescribing errors. A quantitative survey method was used to collect data from 188 community physicians. The partial least squares path modeling technique was applied to analyze the data. Prescribing errors were reduced by improving the information quality, user interface consistency, system ease of use, and mental workload reduction. Mental workload is reduced by ease of use, error prevention, and consistency. No significant relationships between prescribing error reduction with error prevention and also between information quality with mental workload reduction were found. The designers of e-prescribing should improve the error prevention and consistency of the system and make it easy to use if they wish for the system to reduce users' mental workload. They should also improve the system information quality, ease of use, and consistency if they claim that their system reduces physicians' prescribing errors. The system should also reduce users' mental workload to meet this objective.

The impacts of second generation e-prescribing usability on community pharmacists outcomes.

The results from past studies about the effects of second-generation e-prescribing systems on community pharmacists' outcomes and practices are inconclusive, and the claims of effectiveness and efficiency of such systems have not been supported in all studies. There is a strong need to study the factors that lead to positive outcomes for the users of these systems. This paper intends to bridge the above gaps by empirically examining the impacts of user interface usability on the community pharmacists' outcomes. A quantitative survey research method was used and the data was collected from the community pharmacists, who use an e-prescribing system. Data from 152 questionnaires collected in a national survey were used to for the study. Partial Least Squares (PLS) path modeling was used to examine scale reliability, validity and hypotheses. The scale was found to test well for reliability and validity. Examining the hypotheses illustrated that ease of use (P<0.01, t=5.79) and information quality (P<0.01, t=6.24) of an e-prescribing system improved pharmacists' outcomes (including communication, facilitation of care, reduction of workload and medical errors) while ease of use of the system was influenced by user interface consistency (P<0.01, t=7.35) and system error prevention (P<0.01, t=5.29). To improve community pharmacists' outcomes and practices, the ease of use, information quality, consistency and error prevention features of e-prescribing systems should be improved. It was found that information quality had a stronger impact on the outcomes and hence improving the quality of the generated information would have higher impacts on users' outcomes.

Role of Computerized Physician Order Entry Usability in the Reduction of Prescribing Errors

ObjectivesSome hospitals have implemented computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems to reduce the medical error rates. However, research in this area has been very limited, especially regarding the impact of CPOE use on the reduction of prescribing errors. Moreover, the past studies have dealt with the overall impact of CPOE on the reduction of broadly termed "medical errors", and they have not specified which medical errors have been reduced by CPOE. Furthermore, the majority of the past research in this field has been either qualitative or has not used robust empirical techniques. This research examined the impacts of usability of CPOE systems on the reduction of doctors' prescribing errors.MethodsOne hundred and sixty-six questionnaires were used for quantitative data analyses. Since the data was not normally distributed, partial least square path modelling-as the second generation of multivariate data analyses-was applied to analyze data.ResultsIt was found that the ease of use of the system and information quality can significantly reduce prescribing errors. Moreover, the user interface consistency and system error prevention have a significant positive impact on the perceived ease of use. More than 50% of the respondents believed that CPOE reduces the likelihood of drug allergy, drug interaction, and drug dosing errors thus improving patient safety.ConclusionsPrescribing errors in terms of drug allergy, drug interaction, and drug dosing errors are reduced if the CPOE is not error-prone and easy to use, if the user interface is consistent, and if it provides quality information to doctors.

Simulation of two dimensional electrophoresis and tandem mass spectrometry for teaching proteomics

In proteomics, complex mixtures of proteins are separated (usually by chromatography or electrophoresis) and identified by mass spectrometry. We have created 2DE Tandem MS, a computer program designed for use in the biochemistry, proteomics, or bioinformatics classroom. It contains two simulations-2D electrophoresis and tandem mass spectrometry. The two simulations are integrated together and are designed to teach the concept of proteome analysis of prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. 2DE-Tandem MS can be used as a freestanding simulation, or in conjunction with a wet lab, to introduce proteomics in the undergraduate classroom. 2DE Tandem MS is a free program available on Sourceforge at https://sourceforge.net/projects/jbf/. It was developed using Java Swing and functions in Mac OSX, Windows, and Linux, ensuring that every student sees a consistent and informative graphical user interface no matter the computer platform they choose. Java must be installed on the host computer to run 2DE Tandem MS. Example classroom exercises are provided in the Supporting Information.

CalcTav—integration of a spreadsheet and Taverna workbench

Taverna workbench is an environment for construction, visualization and execution of bioinformatic workflows that integrates specialized tools available on the Internet. It already supports major bioinformatics services and is constantly gaining popularity. However, its user interface requires considerable effort to learn, and sometimes requires programming or scripting experience from its users. We have integrated Taverna with OpenOffice Calc, making the functions of the scientific workflow system available in the spreadsheet. In CalcTav, one can define workflows using the spreadsheet interface and analyze the results using the spreadsheet toolset. Technically, CalcTav is a plugin for OpenOffice Calc, which provides the functionality of Taverna available in the form of spreadsheet functions. Even basic familiarity with spreadsheets already suffices to define and use spreadsheet workflows with Taverna services. The data processed by the Taverna components is automatically transferred to and from spreadsheet cells, so all the visualization and data analysis tools of OpenOffice Calc are available to the workflow creator within one, consistent user interface. CalcTav is available under GPLv2 from http://code.google.com/p/calctav/ sroka@mimuw.edu.pl.

IPlots eXtreme: next-generation interactive graphics design and implementation of modern interactive graphics

Interactive graphics provide a very important tool that facilitates the process of exploratory data and model analysis which is a crucial step in real-world applied statistics. Only a very limited set of software exists that provides truly interactive graphics for data analysis, partially because it is not easy to implement. Very often specialized software is created to offer graphics for a particular problem, but many fundamental plots are omitted since it is not considered new research. In this paper we discuss a general framework that allows to create interactive graphics software on a sound foundation that offers consistent user interface, fast prototyping of new plots and extensibility to support interactive models. In addition, we also discuss one implementation of the general framework: iPlots eXtreme—next-generation interactive graphics for analysis of large data in R. It provides most fundamental plot types and allows new interactive plots to be created. The implementation raises interactive graphics performance to an entirely new level. We will discuss briefly several methods that allowed us to achieve this goal and illustrate the use of advanced programmability features in conjunction with R.

Barriers to the adoption of software product line engineering

Software development costs and time to deploy a software-intensive system significantly decrease when Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) approach is applied. Numerous case stu-dies in industrial and military domains have shown that reliability, quality, productivity and user interface consistency improve drasti-cally in addition to the decrease of cost and time-to-market. Also, this system engineering approach is very effective in three market strategies known as cost leadership, differentiation, and focusing. Despite these measurable benefits, product line engineering adop-tion is slower than the other technological trends such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Model Driven Development (MDD), and Aspect Oriented Software Development (AOSD). In this pa-per, we investigate the barriers to the adoption of SPLE and ex-plore the root causes of them from three points of views: Project sponsor, organization, and SPLE community. We provide sugges-tions for how the industry and SPLE community can solve these multi-dimensional issues in a short term.

The Brazilian digital television system access device architecture

AbstractIn early 2003, the Brazilian government accelerated the decision process on analog to digital transition of terrestrial TV broadcast infrastructure, naming this initiative The Brazilian Digital Television System (SBTVD). This paper describes the access device architecture we have proposed for the SBTVD, as well as related issues. We focused on several requirements among which: flexibility to support the social economical diversity enabling market implementations that can vary on cost, complexity and applications; digital inclusion targeting a minimal cost architecture providing a simple access device to information and services by convergent broadcast and point-to-point telecommunication means; and scalability targets incorporating state-of-the-art technology, considering emerging services and the current legacy analog TV infrastructure available in Brazil. We cover the following specific topics: an architecture overview considering scalability, interoperability and regional and international requirements, operating system and middleware interfaces, audio and video coding formats and associate standards, technical and economical analysis, usability and user interface consistency. Finally two prototypes for the outlined access device architecture are reported.

Design of a future laboratory information system (LIS) in a clinical laboratory

Summary: This study presents an overview of the architectural infrastructure in which existing laboratory information systems can be made to interoperate with additional modules, offering a range of advanced clinical laboratory functionalities in the Department of Clinical Laboratory (DCL), Hospital »Aleksandrovska«. The infrastructure is based on an open distributed computing platform, and its specification is described using the open distributed processing reference model. The design and specification of a framework for the interoperability of existing systems and new advanced services are described, and consequently, the paper concentrates on the issue of integration. Laboratory Automation is essential to releasing laboratory technicians from simple routine work, allowing them to use their time for more skilled tasks. Further improvement, however, should be possible through a more consistent user interface, better integration into the laboratory workflow, and interfaces that allow the LIS to query instruments regarding their internal operating status.

Toward Excellence in Turbomachinery Computational Fluid Dynamics: A Hybrid Structured-Unstructured Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Solver

Abstract A three-dimensional hybrid structured-unstructured Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) solver has been developed to simulate flows in complex turbomachinery geometries. It is built by coupling an existing structured computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver with a newly developed unstructured-grid module via a conservative hybrid-grid interfacing algorithm, so that it can get benefits from the both structured and unstructured grids. The unstructured-grid module has been developed with consistent numerical algorithms, data structure, user interface and parallelization to those of the structured one. The numerical features of the hybrid RANS solver are its second-order accurate upwind scheme in space, its SGS implicit formulation of time integration, and its accurate modeling of steady/unsteady boundary conditions for multistage turbomachinery flows. The hybrid-grid interfacing algorithm is essentially an extension of the conservative zonal approach that has been previously applied on the mismatched zonal interface of the structured grids, and it is fully conservative and also second-order accurate. Due to the mismatched grids allowed at the block interface, users would have great flexibility to build the hybrid grids even with different structured and unstructured grid generators. The performance of the hybrid RANS solver is assessed with a variety of validation and application examples, through which the hybrid RANS solver has been demonstrated to be able to cope with the flows in complex turbomachinery geometries and to be promising for the future industrial applications.