A case study for evaluating interface design through communicability

  • Authors:

  • Raquel O. Prates;Simone D. J. Barbosa;Clarisse S. de Souza

  • Affiliations:

  • Computer Science and Informatic Department, IME/UERJ, R. São Francisco Xavier, 524-6o.andar-Maracanã Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil and Informatic Department, PUC-Rio, R. Marquês de S&# ...;Informatics Department, PUC-Rio, R.Marquês de São Vicente, 225, Gávea Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil;Informatics Department, PUC-Rio, R.Marquês de São Vicente, 225, Gávea Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • DIS '00 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Communicability evaluation is a method based on semiotic engineering that aims at assessing how designers communicate to users their design intents and chosen interactive principles, and thus complements traditional usability evaluation methods.In this paper, we present a case study in which we evaluate how communicablity tagging of an application changes along users learning curves. Our main goal was to have indications of how communicability evaluation along a learning period helps provide valuable information about interface designs, and identify communicative and interactive problems, as users become more proficient in the application.