TY - JOUR
T1 - Usability analysis of design guideline database in human-computer interface design
AU - Ogawa, Katsuhiko
AU - Yonemura, Shun ichi
PY - 1992
Y1 - 1992
N2 - Human-computer interface design guidelines are useful for developing well designed interfaces but the designer must be able to access the guideline appropriate to the application. Research is conducted to understand how designers access design guideline databases and then methods are tested to improve the usability of the databases. A design guideline database of approximately 300 guidelines is developed using a hypermedia approach. The system employs a book metaphor interface to characters and graphics in a Japanese environment. The subjects of the usability analysis are software designers who did not have any background in human factors. They were provided with the representation of a bad interface design on a piece of paper, and were instructed to improve the design through the use of the guideline database. Two common strategies were identified by observing the designers' actions: a hypothesis strategy and a checklist strategy. These strategies were analyzed using the quantities and quality of improvements recommended. The optimum database usage checks interface violations by employing the browsing function of the database; sometimes key word searches are used.
AB - Human-computer interface design guidelines are useful for developing well designed interfaces but the designer must be able to access the guideline appropriate to the application. Research is conducted to understand how designers access design guideline databases and then methods are tested to improve the usability of the databases. A design guideline database of approximately 300 guidelines is developed using a hypermedia approach. The system employs a book metaphor interface to characters and graphics in a Japanese environment. The subjects of the usability analysis are software designers who did not have any background in human factors. They were provided with the representation of a bad interface design on a piece of paper, and were instructed to improve the design through the use of the guideline database. Two common strategies were identified by observing the designers' actions: a hypothesis strategy and a checklist strategy. These strategies were analyzed using the quantities and quality of improvements recommended. The optimum database usage checks interface violations by employing the browsing function of the database; sometimes key word searches are used.
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U2 - 10.1177/154193129203600436
DO - 10.1177/154193129203600436
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:0027044125
VL - 1
SP - 433
EP - 437
JO - Proceedings of the Human Factors Society
JF - Proceedings of the Human Factors Society
SN - 0163-5182
T2 - Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 36th Annual Meeting. Part 2 (f 2)
Y2 - 12 October 1992 through 16 October 1992
ER -