A Study on Usability Awareness in Local IT Industry
Journal Title: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science & Applications - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 5
Abstract
Usability awareness receives more consideration by industry professionals and researchers throughout the world, but it is limited in Pakistan. This study reports survey results of the current state of usability awareness in the local Information Technology (IT) industry. Forty participants – IT practitioners from IT industry – were involved in the study. We used Usability Maturity Model (UMM) and content analysis methodology to discover the current status of usability awareness. The results indicate that 1) almost half (18 out of 40) of the participants were unaware of the term usability and related concepts, 2) there is shortage of HCI/Usability professionals in organizations, 3) most of the software companies were at unrecognized level of UMM and 4) they were also not interested in usability because of limited or no budget for it. The study also reveals a gap between usability awareness and its perceived usefulness among IT professionals.
Authors and Affiliations
Mahmood Ashraf, Lal Khan, Muhammad Tahir, Ahmed Alghamdi, Mohammed Alqarni, Thabit Sabbah, Muzafar Khan
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP318506
- DOI 10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090555
- Views 96
- Downloads 0
Reverse Area Skyline in a Map
Skyline query retrieves a set of data objects, each of which is not dominated by another object. On the other hand, given a query object q, “reverse” skyline query retrieves a set of points that are “dynamic” skyline of...
Authentication and Authorization Design in Honeybee Computing
Honeybee computing is a concept based on advanced ubiquitous computing technology to support Smart City Smart Village (SCSV) initiatives. Advanced ubiquitous computing is a computing environment that contains many device...
Rule-based Emotion AI in Arabic Customer Review
The e-commerce emotion analysis is notable and the most pivotal advance since it catches the customer emotion in a product, and emotions with respect to product to decide if the customer attitude is negative, positive, o...
Web Assessment of Libyan Government e-Government Services
Libya has started transferring traditional govern-ment services into e-government services. The e-government initiative involves the use of websites to offer various services such as civil registration, financial transac...
Fast and Efficient In-Memory Big Data Processing
With the passage of time, the data is growing exponentially and the mostly endured areas are social media networks, media hosting applications, and servers. They have thousands of Tera-bytes of data and the efficient sys...