Research of Usability Testing Method of Mobile Phone

Abstract:

Usability testing is an important usability practice to evaluate a product by testing it on users. In this paper, the essentiality and particularity of mobile phone usability testing are analyzed, and the limitation of applying the traditional usability testing method to the mobile phone usability testing is explained. On this basis, an effective usability testing method specialized for mobile phone is pointed out, it gives solutions to two problems in mobile phone testing, i.e. testing in the real environment and real-time monitoring users’ all reaction such as operation, expression and etc.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 308-310)
• Pages: 299-302
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.308-310.299
• Online since: August 2011
• Authors: Chao Lan Tang, Xian Yang
• Keywords: Mobile Phone, Mobile Phone Application, Usability Testing, User Experience

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