Heuristic evaluation of stock exchange mobile application in Malaysia

In recent years, heuristic evaluation has focused to improving the efficiency and effectiveness of applications. This technique is considered as the most effective tool that is used in human-computer interaction studies to test the usability of information systems. Moreover, this technique is widely adopted to analyze the usability of applications as it is inexpensive and quick.The objective of this study is to use the heuristic evaluation principals to assess the effectiveness of the stock exchange mobile application in Malaysia. Questionnaire survey method was used and data were collected by 25 participants from Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE). The heuristic evaluation was conducted by 25 experts to examine the usefulness of stock exchange mobile application. The results revealed that stock exchange application is an effective and useful application that has all required features. Meanwhile, findings also postulated that most of the users show agreeableness regarding the applications of principals of heuristics evaluation in this application. These heuristic principals can further used to avoid the usability gaps in this stock exchange application.This study also gives guidelines to designers for taking corrective measures during the designing of the applications for the stock exchange. Additionally, these guidelines help to provide solutions in the future that how designers may improve the user interface of these stock exchange applications that may improve the experience of users

Are Government Websites Achieving Universal Accessibility?: An Analysis of State Department of Health and Human Services' Websites

Research reports that the search for health information is the fourth most popular activity being done on the web (Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2004). However, for disabled persons, barriers experienced when interfacing with the Internet may cause healthcare websites to be inaccessible to them. This study explores the level of accessibility of healthcare websites and the relationship between accessibility and usability by determining how compliant state department of health and human services websites are with accessibility and usability guidelines. A content analysis of each state's department of health and human services website was conducted. Results revealed that state department of health and human services websites are not very compliant with accessibility guidelines, are somewhat compliant with usability guidelines, and overall are not very accessible. The findings also indicate that there is a significant moderate relationship between accessibility and usability which suggests that the two concepts are interconnected

Usability and credibility evaluation of electronic governments: users’ perspective

This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.With the rapid development of the Internet and web technology, governments worldwide have caught onto this revolution and shown rapid development of electronic government (e-government) in the public sector. Nowadays, there are a significant number of e-governments that are accessible via the Internet and provide a range of information and services. However, existing research indicates that e-government still faces the challenge of generating greater users’ interaction in terms of accessing information, utilizing services and participating in e-government decision making. Among a variety of reasons for this challenge, usability and credibility have been found to be the key factors in users’ decisions about e-government engagement and need to be explored. This research attempts to evaluate the usability and credibility of current e-governments, focusing on specific e-government websites in the UK. This research adopted heuristic evaluation, which is based on users’ perception, to implement a thorough and in-depth assessment of e-government websites. In addition, to obtain a more comprehensive evaluation, users’ performance was measured in order to reveal the level of users’ interaction with e-government websites when they perform a set of practical tasks. The research design was a quasi-experimental, consisting of two linked experiments. Experiment 1 aimed to evaluate usability and credibility of the target e-government websites, identifying a range of existing usability and credibility problems. Based on the usability and credibility problems found, design solutions were proposed for each of the target e-government websites. Experiment 2 aimed to examine the effects of the proposed design solutions on the usability and credibility problems identified on the redesigned e-government websites. The findings of experiment 1 suggested that the e-government websites need to improve their usability and credibility. In particular, the most serious usability problems found in the target e-government websites lay within the areas of “aesthetic and minimalist design”, “recognition rather than recall”, and “consistency and standards”. In addition, the most serious credibility problems identified were within the areas of “site looks professional”, “make site easy to use and useful”, and “show the honest and trustworthy people behind the site”. The findings of experiment 2 revealed that the usability and credibility problems found in experiment 1 had been improved by the proposed design solutions. Furthermore, these improvements might increase the overall usability and credibility of the target e-government websites, making the users’ task performance better within the redesigned e-government websites. Based on the findings of the experiments, this research developed a set of usability and credibility guidelines. Each guideline addressed a number of the specific usability and credibility elements at the detailed level of e-government website design. These guidelines can be helpful to guide designers to develop more usable and credible e-government websites

Integrated adaptive skills program model (IASP)

Integrated Adaptive Skills Program Model (IASP) is designed to offer supportive services to disabled students seeking to integrate into a local after-school program. IASP Model focuses on teaching adaptive skills to disabled students that would prepare them to be fully included into an after-school program with their same age peers. The program offers support, training, and consultation to the students and staff involved in the program. A variety of research-methods and assessment screening tools are used to determine eligibility and program implementation. The IASP Model was piloted during the 2011-2012 school year, in California, United States, but due to limited local and state funds the program could not continue. Students with disabilities deserve to be involved in the community and should not be excluded based on funds. Teaching and educating others on how to integrate students with disabilities into programs will minimize and/or eliminate exclusion of participating in recreation programs within residing communities.https://scholar.dominican.edu/books/1179/thumbnail.jp

Proceedings of Braga 2014 Embracing Inclusive Approaches for Children and Youth with Special Education Needs Conference

This e-book, which is published under the title Braga 2014: Embracing Inclusive Approaches for Children and Youth with Special Education Needs contains a set of papers submitted by the authors in an international conference during July 2014 with the same name. Practitioners, researchers, policy makers, and NGOs from around the world joined their international colleagues to engage in lively and informed discussions about the current state of the art in meeting the needs of children and youth with special educational needs. Topic areas included research, practice, policy, advocacy, and the arts in special education. The conference was co–hosted by The Division of International Special Education and Services (DISES) and the University of Minho in cooperation with the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). As more and more countries around the world strive towards the goals of the Education for All initiative, education systems are turning to increasingly inclusive approaches in order to meet the needs of children and youth who have traditionally been excluded from mainstream education. Research and practice have shown abundant benefits, both academic and social, to all children and youth involved in inclusive education programs. However, simply placing children with special educational needs in mainstream classrooms without appropriate planning, commitment, and support does not guarantee positive outcomes. In this exciting and prestigious international event, participants will share and learn about evidenced–based practices with an emphasis on access, quality, and equity; creative, comprehensive inclusive education approaches; innovations in creating inclusive schools; and integrating research into practice to create stronger links with stakeholders. A special strand focusing on the Arts in Special Education provides a rich forum for special education professionals to build upon innovative practices that encourage creative thinking, draw upon diverse abilities expressed through the arts and develops the individual in ways that traditional academic instruction fails to do so. Finally, the organizers want to emphasize the commitment and systematic work of Paula Frapiccini Ferreira in preparing this e-book.This edition is funded by National Funds through FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology for the Research Center on Education- PEst-OE/CED/UI1661/2014, CIE

Comparing Accessibility Evaluation And Usability Evaluation In Hagáquê

Usability and accessibility are two attributes very important in software design nowadays and, in general, are evaluated separately. On one hand, usability evaluation methods alone can't answer whether software is accessible to all kind of users. On the other hand, an accessibility evaluation can say little about software usability. However, it seems that usability and accessibility evaluation methods have some points in common. The aim of this article is to compare and discuss the similarities and differences between the results of accessibility and usability evaluations in HagáQuê, a comic book editor software for pedagogical usage.124139147Bergman, E., Johnson, E., Towards Accessible Human-Computer Interaction (1995) Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, 5. , Nielsen, J. (ed.). Ablex Publishing Corporation, Norwood, NJBim, S.A., (2001) HagáQuê - Editor de História Em Quadrinhos, , Master Dissertation. UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, BrazilChisholm, W., Vanderheiden, G., Jacobs, I., Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, , http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/, Retrieved April 12, 2005 fromColwell, C., Petrie, H., Evaluation of Guidelines for Designing Accessible Web Content (1999) Proceedings of the INTERACT'99 Workshop: Making Designers Aware of Existing Guidelines for Accessibility (Edinburgh, Scotland, August 30-September 3, 1999), pp. 11-13. , ACM Press, New York, NYCooper, M., Rejmer, P., Case study: Localization of an accessibility evaluation (2001) Proceedings of SIGCHI Conference on Human Aspects in Computing Systems (CHI'01) (Seattle, WA, United States, March 31-April 5, 2001), pp. 141-142. , ACM Press, New York, NYCynthia Says Portal, , http://www.contentquality.com/, Retrieved April 12, 2005 fromHagáQuê, http://www.nied.unicamp.br/~hagaque, Retrieved April 12, 2005 fromLang, T., (2003) Comparing Website Accessibility Evaluation Methods and Learnings from Usability Evaluation Methods, , http://www.peakusability.com.au/articles/, Retrieved February 25, 2005, fromLaw, L.C., Hvannberg, E.T., Complementarity and Convergence of Heuristic Evaluation and Usability Test: A Case Study of UNIVERSAL Brokerage Platform (2002) Proceedings of 2nd Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI'02) (Aarhus, Denmark, October 19-23, 2002), pp. 71-80. , ACM Press, New York, NYMuller, M.J., McClard, A., Bell, B., Dooley, S., Meiskey, L., Meskill, J.A., Sparks, R., Tellam, D., Validating an Extension to Participatory Heuristic Evaluation: Quality of Work and Quality of Work Life (1995) Proceedings of Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'95) (Denver, CO, United States, May 7-11, 1995), pp. 115-116. , ACM Press, New York, NYNielsen, J., Heuristic Evaluation (1994) Usability Inspection Methods, , Nielsen, J. and Mack, R. L. John Wiley & Sons, New York, NYPaddison, C., Englefield, P., Applying heuristics to accessibility inspections (2003) Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Universal Usability (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, November 10-11, 2003), pp. 126-136. , ACM Press, New York, NYPreece, J., Rogers, Y., Sharp, H., Benyon, D., Holland, S., Carey, T., (1994) Human-computer Interaction, , Addison WesleyProjeto de Informática Na Educação Especial, , http://www.nied.unicamp.br/~proinesp, PROINESP Retrieved April 7, 2005 fromRocha, H.V., Baranauskas, M.C.C., Design e avaliação de interfaces humano-computador NIED/UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, 2003Rowan, M., Gregor, P., Sloan, D., Booth, P., Evaluating Web Resources for Disability Access (2000) Proceedings of the Fourth International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Arlington, VA, United States, November 13-15, 2000), pp. 80-84. , ACM Press, New York, NYSection 508: The Road to Accessibility, , http://www.section508.gov, Retrieved April 12, 2005 fromShneiderman, B., (1998) Designing the User Interface - Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, , Third Edition. USA, Addison Wesley LongmanSullivan, T., Matson, R., Barriers to Use: Usability and Content Accessibility on the Web's Most Popular Sites (2000) Proceedings of the 2000 Conference on Universal Usability (Arlington, VA, United States, November 16-17, 2000), pp. 139-144. , ACM Press, New York, NYTanaka, E.H., (2004) Tornando Um Software Acessível para Pessoas Com Necessidades Educacionais Especiais, , Master Dissertation, UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, BrazilUsability Junction. What Is Accessibility?, , http://www.usabilityjunction.com/services/faq_access.htm, Retrieved December 30, 2002 fromWatchfire. Bobby Online Free Portal, , http://bobby.watchfire.com/, Retrieved April 12, 2005 fro