David Alonso

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• Article: A Context-of-Use Taxonomy for Usability Studies

  D. Alonso-Ríos, A. Vázquez-García, E. Mosqueira-Rey, V. Moret-Bonillo
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  ABSTRACT: The interest in developing usable products has led to the inclusion of usability aspects in product development processes. Nonetheless, the fact that there is a tendency to overlook characteristics of the context in which a product is to be used means that the usability of a product in its operational environment is often diminished. One of the main reasons why this is the case is because there is no clear and sufficiently detailed model available for defining the concept of context of use. A comprehensive taxonomy that describes context of use and its attributes by means of precise definitions is proposed. This taxonomy will serve as a basis for improving the validity of usability activities by enabling an analysis of the conditions of use of a product in usability studies in a structured way.
  International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction 10/2010; 26(10):941-970. · 0.95 Impact Factor
• Article: A Context-of-Use Taxonomy for Usability Studies.

  David Alonso-Ríos, Ana Vázquez-García, Eduardo Mosqueira-Rey, Vicente Moret-Bonillo
  Int. J. Hum. Comput. Interaction. 01/2010; 26:941-970.
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  Article: Usability: A Critical Analysis and a Taxonomy.

  David Alonso-Ríos, Ana Vázquez-García, Eduardo Mosqueira-Rey, Vicente Moret-Bonillo
  Int. J. Hum. Comput. Interaction. 01/2010; 26:53-74.
• Conference Proceeding: An HTML analyzer for the study of web usability

  D. Alonso-Rios, I. Luis-Vazquez, E. Mosqueira-Rey, V. Moret-Bonillo, B.B. del Rio
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  ABSTRACT: This paper presents an HTML analyzer for the study of Web usability. The analyzer parses HTML code in order to extract usability information from Web pages. For usability aspects that can be analyzed automatically, the analyzer draws conclusions and offers suggestions. For more subjective usability issues, it assists the expert by presenting relevant information in a convenient way. Many similar applications exist, but they mostly focus on well-known usability problems and pay little attention to subtler aspects. More alarmingly, they suffer from basic usability problems. Our results show that our analyzer examines several usability aspects - related to ease of navigation, understandability, flexibility, and compatibility - that are generally ignored by the other tools.
  Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2009. SMC 2009. IEEE International Conference on; 11/2009
• Article: Usability: A Critical Analysis and a Taxonomy

  D. Alonso-Ríos, A. Vázquez-García, E. Mosqueira-Rey, V. Moret-Bonillo
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  ABSTRACT: A major obstacle to the implantation of User-Centered Design in the real world is the fact that no precise definition of the concept of usability exists that is widely accepted and applied in practice. Generally speaking, the literature tends to define usability in overly brief and ambiguous terms and to describe its application in informal terms. This is one of the main reasons why ad hoc techniques predominate in usability study methodologies. The aims of this article are to investigate the concept of usability and to describe it by means of a detailed taxonomy that is organized hierarchically and that contains exhaustive descriptions of usability attributes. This taxonomy can be used to support different stages in the development of usable systems.
  Intl. Journal of Human–Computer Interaction. 01/2010; 26(1):53-74.