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User Interface Context of Use Guidelines For Mobile Apps

Due to the intensive use of mobile devices and the variable context of use, mobile apps user interface guidelines that take into account users’ context of use is in urgent need to provide users with a good user experience while on the go. The objective of this paper is to propose context of use mobile user interface design guidelines and test their applicability on the design of a mobile version of an environmental e-government website. We collected a group of user interface design guidelines from different sources in the literature and linked them to the appropriate context of use, while some guidelines were linked to more than one context of use. An expert user, with no design experience used the proposed guidelines to design the mobile app. We conducted usability tests of the mobile app using two methods of testing: performance measurements and subjective measurements. To perform the performance measurement, we gave nine tasks to each of the 15 users and gave two questionnaires to each user to perform the subjective measurement. The results showed the following: the mobile app that was designed using the proposed guidelines—which the users tested while moving between different simulated environmental conditions—performed tasks in a similar time to the expert. This finding supports the applicability of the proposed guidelines in terms of designing mobile apps that will provide users with a good user experience. Thus, the proposed guidelines for designing a context-aware mobile app user interface were useful for producing a good user experience using the mobile app.

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User Interface Context of Use Guidelines For Mobile Apps

Due to the intensive use of mobile devices and the variable context of use, mobile apps user interface guidelines that take into account users’ context of use is in urgent need to provide users with a good user experience while on the go. The objective of this paper is to propose context of use mobile user interface design guidelines and test their applicability on the design of a mobile version of an environmental e-government website. We collected a group of user interface design guidelines from different sources in the literature and linked them to the appropriate context of use, while some guidelines were linked to more than one context of use. An expert user, with no design experience used the proposed guidelines to design the mobile app. We conducted usability tests of the mobile app using two methods of testing: performance measurements and subjective measurements. To perform the performance measurement, we gave nine tasks to each of the 15 users and gave two questionnaires to each user to perform the subjective measurement. The results showed the following: the mobile app that was designed using the proposed guidelines—which the users tested while moving between different simulated environmental conditions—performed tasks in a similar time to the expert. This finding supports the applicability of the proposed guidelines in terms of designing mobile apps that will provide users with a good user experience. Thus, the proposed guidelines for designing a context-aware mobile app user interface were useful for producing a good user experience using the mobile app.

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User Interface Context of Use Guidelines for Mobile Apps

Hana Al-Nuiam

hnuaim@kau.edu.sa

Faculty of Computer and Information Technology/


Computer Science Department/
King Abdulaziz University
Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia

Lulwah Al-Harigy

lalharigy@kau.edu.sa

Deanship of e-Learning and Distance Education/


e-Learning Programs Department/
King Abdulaziz University
Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Keywords:

1. INTRODUCTION

2. CONTEXT AWARENESS

1. Learnability:

2. Efficiency of use:
3. Memorability:
.
Low Error Rate:
5. Subjective Satisfaction:

3. CONTEXT OF USE

4. GUIDELINES FOR DESIGNING MOBILE APPS

Guidelines (GL) 1: Analysis Guidelines

GL 2: Page Layout Guidelines

GL 3: Guidelines for Using Colors

GL 4: Simplicity and Clarity Guidelines

GL 5: Consistency Guidelines

GL 6: Content Selection Guidelines

GL 7: Visual and Interaction Design Guidelines

GL 8: Guidelines for Using Images and Icons (Graphics)

GL 9: Guidelines for Using Tables

GL 10: Site Navigation Design Guidelines

GL 11: Guidelines for Managing Hyperlinks

GL 12: User Input Guidelines

GL 13: Feedback Guidelines

GL 14: Mobile Context Guidelines

TABLE 1:

TABLE 2:

5. TESTING THE PROPOSED GUIDELINES

FIGURE 1:

FIGURE 2:

TABLE 3:

20
18

17.84

16

USERS

14
12
10

10
8

8
6

5.59

7.45
5.25

6.07

6.8
4.15

5.07

4.97

2.4

4.3

1.3

3.86

1.3

1.5

1.9

TIME
Users
Expert
FIGURE 3:

6. CONCLUSION

7. REFERENCES
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JITAE,

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IWUC

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Technologies in Education (WMTE 2205), 123-127
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Technologies in Education (WMTE05)

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Sector Performance

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Technology for Nonprofit and Civi Engagements

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