Improving learnability and understandability of a Web application using an action-based technique

The emergence of the Internet era leads to the widely used of Web-based applications. Diverse demographic of users requires Web applications to have the features that enable different level of users to learn and understand their functionalities easily and instantly. Thus, a Web application that is l...

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Main Authors: Zamli, Kamal Zuhairi, Shamsuddin, Nurul Afiqah, Sulaiman, Shahida, Syed-Mohamad, Sharifah Mashita
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/45937/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MySEC.2011.6140678
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Summary:The emergence of the Internet era leads to the widely used of Web-based applications. Diverse demographic of users requires Web applications to have the features that enable different level of users to learn and understand their functionalities easily and instantly. Thus, a Web application that is learnable and understandable allows users to interact better and gain more advantages of using the Web application. Users' interactions with a system often reflect users' knowledge and understanding of the system. By studying users' interactions, Web developers can provide guidance to users, which promote the learnability and understandability of a Web application. The aim of this paper is to improve usability in the aspects of learnability and understandability through user interface design of a Web application. This paper proposes an action-based technique to improve users' learnability and understandability by studying users' interactions while they are interacting with the user interface of a Web application. Web developers can apply the proposed technique in designing a more usable Web application in the future.