Heuristic Evaluation of the Usability of Smart Home Applications

Ana Isabel Martins, Ana Carolina Oliveira Lima, Pedro Coutinho, Nelson Pacheco Rocha

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Resumo

The objective of the study reported by the present paper was to assess the usability of HomeCom and EMMA, which are smart home applications developed by Bosch Termotecnologia to improve buildings’ thermal comfort while safeguarding energy efficiency. An experience involving three evaluators was conducted to apply the heuristic evaluation method based on the Heuristic Evaluation System Checklist (HESC). The results point to satisfactory levels of usability of the assessed smart home applications, since most interfaces have no problems, and the interaction is, in general, done with a coherent flow. The results also show that heuristic evaluation generates a large quantity of objective information, which provides an exhaustive identification of aspects that should be improved.

Idioma originalInglês
Título da publicação do anfitriãoComprehensible Science, ICCS 2021
EditoresTatiana Antipova
EditoraSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Páginas483-494
Número de páginas12
ISBN (impresso)9783030857981
DOIs
Estado da publicaçãoPublicadas - 2022
Publicado externamenteSim
EventoInternational Conference on Comprehensible Science, ICCS 2021 - Eilat
Duração: 18 jun. 202119 jun. 2021

Série de publicação

NomeLecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volume315 LNNS
ISSN (impresso)2367-3370
ISSN (eletrónico)2367-3389

Conferência

ConferênciaInternational Conference on Comprehensible Science, ICCS 2021
País/TerritórioIsrael
CidadeEilat
Período18/06/2119/06/21

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Financiamento

Financiadoras/-esNúmero do financiador
Universidade de Aveiro
Fundação para a Ciência e a TecnologiaUID/CEC/00127/2021
European Regional Development Fund

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