TY - JOUR
T1 - A unified methodology for the evaluation of accessibility and usability of mobile applications
AU - Billi, Marco
AU - Burzagli, Laura
AU - Catarci, Tiziana
AU - Santucci, Giuseppe
AU - Bertini, Enrico
AU - Gabbanini, Francesco
AU - Palchetti, Enrico
N1 - Funding Information:
Research partially supported by the MIUR/FIRB Project “MAIS” ( http://www.black.elet.polimi.it/mais ) and the EC NoE G038-507618, “DELOS” ( http://www.delos.info/ ). We would like to thank Alan Dix for many fruitful discussions and comments on earlier drafts of this paper and the anonymous Reviewers for their useful suggestions.
PY - 2010/11
Y1 - 2010/11
N2 - This article reports a unified methodology developed to evaluate the accessibility and usability of mobile computing applications, which is intended to guarantee universal access as far as possible. As a basis for the methodology, this paper presents an analysis of the accessibility guidelines, conducted to take into account the specificity of mobile systems, as well as a set of usability heuristics, specifically devised for mobile computing. Finally, it presents the results of the application of the proposed methodology to applications that have been semi-automatically developed by the MAIS Designer, a new design tool that provides applications suited to different mobile devices.
AB - This article reports a unified methodology developed to evaluate the accessibility and usability of mobile computing applications, which is intended to guarantee universal access as far as possible. As a basis for the methodology, this paper presents an analysis of the accessibility guidelines, conducted to take into account the specificity of mobile systems, as well as a set of usability heuristics, specifically devised for mobile computing. Finally, it presents the results of the application of the proposed methodology to applications that have been semi-automatically developed by the MAIS Designer, a new design tool that provides applications suited to different mobile devices.
KW - Accessibility
KW - Mobile computing
KW - Usability
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U2 - 10.1007/s10209-009-0180-1
DO - 10.1007/s10209-009-0180-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:78149371229
SN - 1615-5289
VL - 9
SP - 337
EP - 356
JO - Universal Access in the Information Society
JF - Universal Access in the Information Society
IS - 4
ER -