Authors:
Dorra Zaibi
;
Meriem Riahi
and
Faouzi Moussa
Affiliation:
LIPAH Laboratory, Faculty of Science of Tunis and University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia
Keyword(s):
Ubiquitous Computing, Context-Aware Systems, Usability Rules, Inference System, Model-Driven Architecture.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Adaptive and Adaptable User Interfaces
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Human Factors
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Physiological Computing Systems
Abstract:
With the considerable advancement of technologies and the proliferation of mobile devices, evaluating the usability of software applications has become an emerging research area. Hence, improving the quality of software applications is crucial in context-aware environments. For that reason an increasing attention is drawn towards the development and the adoption of appropriate research proposals able to evaluate the mobile application usability. This article is a contribution to proposing a methodology for the development of context-aware systems based on usability requirements during the user interface design stage. In particular, this approach focuses on how to infer consistent context-based usability requirements and how to incorporate these requirements into a user interface development process. As a proof of the proposal concept, we have applied our methodology to an illustrative case study. More, experiments with end users have been carried out.