Publication detail

USER TESTING OF WEB-BASED GIS

Authors: Kuchtíková Eva | Komárková Jitka | Tenkrátová Radka | Pásler Miroslav

Year: 2014

Type of publication: ostatní - článek ve sborníku

Name of source: Scientia iuvenis - Book of Scientific Papers

Publisher name: Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre

Place: Nitra

Page from-to: 442-449

Titles:

Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
eng	USER TESTING OF WEB-BASED GIS	The paper is focused on evaluation of usability testing of web-based geographic information systems. The main aim is to identify the most common and the most serious problems in usability of web-based geographical information systems of all regional authorities in the Czech Republic. For the evaluation of usability of web-based geographical information systems (GIS), the usability user testing method was chosen in this case. Choice of participants and their brief description are provided at first. Next, procedure of usability testing is described.The paper also presents the results of usability user testing and identified most common problems in usability. Next part of the paper is devoted to the most used functions that are used in web-based GIS.Problems that the participants had to deal with are described. Problems are individually described for each particular function. For each function there areproposed possible ways of improvement.	Usability user testing. Web-based GIS. Usability.

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