What is Meant by User Experience? Analyzing Usability/User Experience...
Abstract This research investigates the ways usability/user experience professionals describe themselves for different audiences and across multiple digital platforms, including LinkedIn, Twitter,...
View ArticleAn Experience in Requirements Prototyping with Young Deaf Children
Abstract Deaf children are an underrepresented group in technology development, despite the potential technology available to aid them in language acquisition. Requirements elicitation prototyping...
View ArticleRhetorical Grounding and an Agile Attitude: Complex Systems, Multi-Genre...
Abstract This article describes a graduate-level service learning usability project and illustrates the practical tensions generated by increasing complexity in technology design. Although a...
View ArticleLearning to Use, Useful for Learning: A Usability Study of Google Apps for...
Abstract Using results from an original survey instrument, this study examined student perceptions of how useful Google Apps for Education (GAFE) was in students’ learning of core concepts in a...
View ArticleInvestigating the Usability of E-Textbooks Using the Technique for Human...
Abstract Many schools and universities are starting to offer e‑textbooks as an alternative to traditional paper textbooks; however, limited research has been done in this area to examine their...
View ArticleHow Hard Can It Be to Place a Ballot Into a Ballot Box? Usability of Ballot...
Abstract End-to-end verifiable voting methods are an emerging type of voting system, and a number of new designs are being actively developed. Many of these systems try to mirror current paper voting...
View ArticleImproving Voter Experience Through User Testing and Iterative Design
Abstract The principal focus of this report was to identify practical and correctable problems with the voting process and to mitigate those problems through careful application of human factors...
View ArticleIntroduction to the Special Student Issue
The lifeblood of any discipline is its students. Because they are acquiring the knowledge of the discipline for the first time, they add new perspectives and provide their own contexts. They also bring...
View ArticleEditor in Chief Bids JUS Readers Adieu
Five years ago Avi Parush, the original editor in chief of JUS, asked me to join him in that position. I assumed my role would be similar to that of a paper reviewer. But Avi had a strong belief that...
View ArticleIntroduction to Volume 11, Issue 1, November 2015
It is with mixed emotions that I say goodbye to Joe Dumas, the co-editor in chief of the Journal of Usability Studies. This is Joe’s last issue, after 5 years as co-editor. His contribution has been...
View ArticleWhen Perishing Isn’t a Problem: Publication Tips for Practitioners
I took my first course in experimental psychology in the mid-1970s. As part of our lab assignments, we were required to write reports in APA style for each experiment we conducted. The instructor told...
View ArticleGesture Selection Study for a Maternal Healthcare Information System in Rural...
Abstract This paper presents a case study aimed at selecting suitable body gestures to represent actions that viewers of a televised maternal health information program will recognize and understand....
View ArticleEvaluation of a Game Used to Teach Usability to Undergraduate Students in...
Abstract There is a growing recognition of the importance of teaching usability, which has been discussed in various forms in undergraduate courses in areas related to Information Technology. Usability...
View ArticleUser-Centered Design Method for the Design of Assistive Switch Devices to...
Abstract Despite an increasing awareness of user-centered design (UCD), there is limited discussion of how such approaches can be translated into the resource and time constrained environments of...
View ArticleCross-Cultural Differences in Automotive HMI Design: A Comparative Study...
Abstract This paper presents a research study examining the importance of understanding automotive users’ cultural values and their individual preferences for human machine interface (HMI) design...
View ArticleMaking Meaningful Things Together: Working Towards a Mature Business
Sometimes people create conflicts during a project that only serve to get in the way of making meaningful things together. Or in other words, unnecessary and petty battles make work not fun and not...
View ArticleIntroduction to Volume 11, Issue 2, February 2016
It is with great pleasure that I welcome Jim Lewis as the new Co-editor in Chief of the Journal of Usability Studies. Jim comes to JUS with an amazing breadth of experience in usability and user...
View ArticleIntroduction to Volume 11, Issue 3, May 2016
Bill Albert and Jim Lewis Journal of Usability Studies–Co-Editors in ChiefJournal of Usability Studies, Volume 11, Issue 3, May, 2016 For our May issue, Professor Morten Hertzum has contributed an...
View ArticleUsability Evaluation of a New Text Input Method for Smart TVs
Abstract Smart TVs are becoming an increasingly important multimedia device for home entertainment. A smart TV is a platform that provides access to many types of media and services such as games, the...
View ArticleRe-Assessing the Usability Metric for User Experience (UMUX) Scale
Abstract Usability Metric for User Experience (UMUX) and its shorter form variant UMUX-LITE are recent additions to standardized usability questionnaires. UMUX aims to measure perceived usability by...
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