Facilitating and automating usability testing of educational technologies
dc.contributor.author | Villamañe Girones, Mikel | |
dc.contributor.author | Álvarez Arana, Ainhoa Izaro | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-20T14:51:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-05-20T14:51:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-05 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Computer Applications in Engineering Education 32(3) : (2024) // Article ID e22725 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 1061-3773 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1099-0542 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/68048 | |
dc.description.abstract | Usability evaluation is a key element to ensure a positive user experience with any software and it is especially important in educational software tools where there are many different actors involved (lecturers, students, administrators, etc.). However, evaluating usability is not an easy task for nonexpert evaluators. To facilitate this evaluation task, this article presents a Methodology for Usability Testing (MUT) and a system (CALMUT) that assists nonexpert evaluators in the application of the methodology by automatizing the calculations and facilitating their interpretation. This can be very useful for learning and instructional designers but also to people involved in the decision of introducing or not a new educational software. To develop the proposal, a literature review of different usability metrics, methods, and systems was carried out first, followed by a selection and adaptation for novice usability evaluators. This article also presents a case study where lecturers tested the usability of an educational software following the proposal and shows that using MUT and CALMUT helps people without previous experience detect the main usability problems of educational systems before deciding whether to use them or not. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported by the Department of Education, Universities and Research of the Basque Government under Grant ADIAN, IT-1437-22. Open Access funding provided by University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU. | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | Wiley | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/es/ | * |
dc.subject | educational technologies | es_ES |
dc.subject | usability testing | es_ES |
dc.title | Facilitating and automating usability testing of educational technologies | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | © 2024 The Authors. Computer Applications in Engineering Education published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | Atribución-NoComercial 3.0 España | * |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cae.22725 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1002/cae.22725 | |
dc.departamentoes | Lenguajes y sistemas informáticos | es_ES |
dc.departamentoeu | Hizkuntza eta sistema informatikoak | es_ES |
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