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Title:
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IMPROVING LEARNABILITY AND USABILITY OF SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS |
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Author(s):
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Ali Sajedi , Hamidreza Afzali , Mehregan Mahdavi |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-59-1 |
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Editors:
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Katherine Blashki |
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Year:
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2008 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Software Engineering, User Interface Design, Usability |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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277 |
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Last Page:
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281 |
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Language:
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English |
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Cover:
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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In this paper, we study important aspects of a user interface (UI) from learning and usability point of view and propose
useful suggestions. These aspects include help and documentation, search, automation, flexibility and efficiency. We
suggest using functionality tree structure to have an intensive help; hence a learnable software may result especially in
case of web based and mobile applications. We show that by means of visibling invisible objects and having intelligent
forms we can make the UI more learnable too; In addition, we make suggestions for designing software with friendlier UI
and discuss their impact on the quality factors of a UI with emphasis on improving time to learn and user satisfaction
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