Usability testing of industrial training system (ITS-UTM) phase i for modules used by the students

Usability testing is the core of usability engineering practice to identify areas where users struggle with the site and make recommendations for improvement. Industrial Training Systems (ITS-UTM) is a web based application system which is developed to manage the industrial training process in Unive...

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Main Author: Khoo, Song Ching
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/11479/6/KhooSongChingMFSKSM2009.pdf
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description Usability testing is the core of usability engineering practice to identify areas where users struggle with the site and make recommendations for improvement. Industrial Training Systems (ITS-UTM) is a web based application system which is developed to manage the industrial training process in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). Since ITS-UTM is new system, no usability assessment has been done on it before. Therefore, a usability evaluation is needed to evaluate if ITS-UTM is easy to use for average students. However, the literature on usability testing offers surprisingly little help in how to measure usability, in particular how to select measures of usability. Therefore, it is needed to identify the suitable usability aspects and evaluation methods for usability testing on ITS-UTM. In this study, a usability evaluation model has been developed to evaluate the usability of ITMS in aspects of effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction. The usability evaluation methods applied in this study is performance measurement, observation, and questionnaire. From the results, the overall effectiveness for Student Pre-registration and ITS-UTM are above the success criterion (70%). However, the efficiency and satisfaction of Student Preregistration rated by subjects from questionnaires are low. For usability testing of ITS-UTM, the overall satisfaction rated by subjects after completing each task is high. Besides, the main usability problems met by the students have been identified in this study. Furthermore, this research found that correlations among effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction were medium correlated.
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spelling utm.eprints-114792017-09-20T10:36:00Z http://eprints.utm.my/11479/ Usability testing of industrial training system (ITS-UTM) phase i for modules used by the students Khoo, Song Ching QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Usability testing is the core of usability engineering practice to identify areas where users struggle with the site and make recommendations for improvement. Industrial Training Systems (ITS-UTM) is a web based application system which is developed to manage the industrial training process in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). Since ITS-UTM is new system, no usability assessment has been done on it before. Therefore, a usability evaluation is needed to evaluate if ITS-UTM is easy to use for average students. However, the literature on usability testing offers surprisingly little help in how to measure usability, in particular how to select measures of usability. Therefore, it is needed to identify the suitable usability aspects and evaluation methods for usability testing on ITS-UTM. In this study, a usability evaluation model has been developed to evaluate the usability of ITMS in aspects of effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction. The usability evaluation methods applied in this study is performance measurement, observation, and questionnaire. From the results, the overall effectiveness for Student Pre-registration and ITS-UTM are above the success criterion (70%). However, the efficiency and satisfaction of Student Preregistration rated by subjects from questionnaires are low. For usability testing of ITS-UTM, the overall satisfaction rated by subjects after completing each task is high. Besides, the main usability problems met by the students have been identified in this study. Furthermore, this research found that correlations among effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction were medium correlated. 2009-10 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/11479/6/KhooSongChingMFSKSM2009.pdf Khoo, Song Ching (2009) Usability testing of industrial training system (ITS-UTM) phase i for modules used by the students. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems.
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title Usability testing of industrial training system (ITS-UTM) phase i for modules used by the students
title_full Usability testing of industrial training system (ITS-UTM) phase i for modules used by the students
title_fullStr Usability testing of industrial training system (ITS-UTM) phase i for modules used by the students
title_full_unstemmed Usability testing of industrial training system (ITS-UTM) phase i for modules used by the students
title_short Usability testing of industrial training system (ITS-UTM) phase i for modules used by the students
title_sort usability testing of industrial training system its utm phase i for modules used by the students
topic QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
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