Andrew Turk
Andrew Turk is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the College of Arts, Business, Law and Social Sciences, Murdoch University (Western Australia). He has degrees in Surveying, Applied Science (Cartography) and Arts (Psychology Honours and Philosophy major) and a PhD in HCI and GIS. He worked for fifteen years (from 1969) as a mapping surveyor and cartographer with the Australian Government, carrying out fieldwork all over Australia, including a summer in the Australian Antarctic Territory. For more than twenty years (from 1984) he taught surveying, cartography, GIS and human factors aspects of IT at the University of Melbourne, University of Hawaii (Manoa) and Murdoch University. For the past forty years he has conducted research in several disciplines, including many research and development projects with remote Australian Aboriginal communities. Currently he is concentrating on transdisciplinary research concerning landscape, culture and phenomenology. His second PhD, entitled “Understanding Modes of Dwelling: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Phenomenology of Landscape”, was completed at Murdoch University, Western Australia in 2020. He has been working on further publication in 2021 and 2022..
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This paper reports on progress towards a proposed user-centred, task-based methodology for selecting usability evaluation parameters for WWW sites, through a contingency table approach. This is based on categorising the site via taxonomies of user characteristics and site content/purpose. Appropriate design guidelines, usability dimensions and evaluation techniques may then be identified and a suitable evaluation plan established. Usability questionnaires may be optimised. Progress on development of this framework into a software tool is discussed.
KEYWORDS: usability, evaluation, WWW, sites, contingency, users, tasks, characteristics
This paper reports on progress towards a proposed user-centred, task-based methodology for selecting usability evaluation parameters for WWW sites, through a contingency table approach. This is based on categorising the site via taxonomies of user characteristics and site content/purpose. Appropriate design guidelines, usability dimensions and evaluation techniques may then be identified and a suitable evaluation plan established. Usability questionnaires may be optimised. Progress on development of this framework into a software tool is discussed.
KEYWORDS: usability, evaluation, WWW, sites, contingency, users, tasks, characteristics