Usability of UX Methods in Agrarian Sector - Verification

P. ŠimekJ. VaněkJ. Pavlík


No 3/2015, September
pp. 49-56

Šimek P., Vaněk J., Pavlík J. (2015) "Usability of UX Methods in Agrarian Sector – Verification“, AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 49 – 56. ISSN 1804-1930

Abstract

The article deals with experimental verification of three distinct UX web application testing methods in areas of agriculture, food industry, forestry, water management and rural development. The verification was conducted using agrarian WWW portal AGRIS. The three analyzed methods were five-second test, thirty-second test and usability test with preset scenario. The usability test yielded best results. The results of thirty-second test were satisfactory while the five-second test proved to be unsuitable for the given area.

Keywords

UX, agrarian portal, testing, WWW, user, information source.

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