Usability Evaluation of a Mobile Application in Extraordinary Environment for Extraordinary People
This work addresses usability challenges for a specific mobile application targeting children with disabilities, but it appears incremental as it focuses on evaluation rather than new methods or broad impact.
The paper tackled the problem of evaluating the usability of the MumIES mobile application, designed to support children with disabilities like autism, in extraordinary environments, finding that users need tools to access children's potential and challenges for full support.
In a contemporary world, people become dependent on electronic devices. Technologies help to clarification and structure life in many ways to meet the need of the children oriented requirements. The children suffering from disabilities (e.g. autism) has desperate needs for elucidation and structures their life. MumIES is a research based system facilitates to support and manage their living. This paper works on MumIES system to evaluate usability of the system in extraordinary environment for extraordinary people. The paper shows from the survey observation users need supporting tools to access the children's potential and challenges and to give the full support to overcome disabilities. Usability evaluation has been considered one of the key challenges to MumIES system. The paper represents analysis, design of usability studies for the extraordinary user in environment.