Usability Of Web Gis Applications From User Perspective: A Case Study [usabilidade De Aplicações Sig Web Na Perspectiva Do Usuário: Um Estudo De Caso]

Abstract

Web GIS applications have received marked attention in the last years, since geographic information can be visualizated/manipulated in different places, for different profiles of users, using the Internet. This increases the complexity implementation of GIS applications, both with regard to functional aspects, and in computer-human interface aspects. The goal of this work is to illustrate the concept and techniques of usability in the context of interfaces for Web GIS applications, by means of a case study of usability test for these applications.(2005) Agritempo, , http://www.agritempo.gov.br, on line, Disponível em:, Último acesso: 06/09/2005Barnum, C., (2002) Usability Testing and Research, , Longman. New YorkDumas, J.S., Redish, J.C.E., (1994) A Practical Guide to Usability Testing, , Ablex, Norwood, NJ(1998) 9241-14 Ergonomic Requirements for Office Work with Visual Display Terminals (VDTs) - Part 14 Menu Dialogues, , ISO/IECKeirnan, T., Anschuetz, L., Rosenbaum, S.E., Combining usability research with documentation development for improved user support (2002) Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference on Computer Documentation, SIGDOC'02, pp. 84-89. , October 20-23, Toronto, Ontário, CanadáMayhew, D.J., (1999) The Usability Engineering Lifecycle, , Morgan Kaufman, San FranciscoNielsen, J., (1993) Usability Engineering, , Academic Press, Inc. San DiegoNielsen, J., (1994) Guerilla HCI: Using Discount Usability Engineering to Penetrate the Intimidation Barrier in Cost Justifying Usability, pp. 242-272. , (editors: Bias, R.G. e Mayhew, D.J.), Academic Press, BostonPinelle, D., Gutwin, C.E., Task analysis for groupware usability evaluation: Modeling shared-workspace tasks the mechanics of collaboration (2003) ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, TOCHI, 10 (4), pp. 281-311. , December- 2003Rocha, H.V., Da Baranauskas, M.C.C., Design e avaliação de interfaces humano-computador (2003) Núcleo de Informática Aplicada à Educação, NIED, , Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMPRosson, M.B., Carrol, J.M.E., Usability engineering (2002) Scenario-Based Development of Human-Computer Interaction, , Morgan Kaufmann PublishersSchimiguel, J., Baranauskas, M.C.C., Medeiros, C.M.B., Inspecting user interface quality in web GIS applications (2004) Proceedings of VI Brazilian Symposium on GeoInformatics, GEOINFO2004, , Campos do Jordão, SPSchimiguel, J., Baranauskas, M.C.C., Medeiros, C.M.B., Investigando aspectos de interação em aplicaçõ es sig na web voltadas ao domínio agrícola (2004) Anais do VI Simpósio Sobre Fatores Humanos Em Sistemas Computacionais, IHC2004, , Curitiba, PRSchimiguel, J., Melo, A.M., Baranauskas, M.C.C., Medeiros, C.M.B., Accessibility as a quality requirement: Geographic information systems on the web (2005) Conferencia LatinoAmericana de Interacción Humano-Computadora, CLIHC2005, , Cuernavaca, México(2005) SIMEPAR, , http://www.simepar.br, Simepar, [on line]. Disponível em:, Último acesso: 06/09/200