Analysis of eAGRI Web Portal Ergonomics And Presentation of Information in Terms of the General Public

Petr BendaPavel ŠimekJan MasnerJiří Vaněk

DOI 10.7160/aol.2017.090401
No 4/2017, December
pp. 3-13

Benda, P., Šimek, P., Masner, J. and Vaněk, J. (2017) “Analysis of eAGRI Web Portal Ergonomics And Presentation of Information in Terms of the General Public", AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 3-13. ISSN 1804-1930. DOI 10.7160/aol.2017.090401.

Abstract

The aim of the eAGRI portal is to inform not only professionals in the field of agriculture but also the general public about current events and news in the respective resort. Merit of the paper is to discover if the current level of eAGRI portal ergonomics is sufficient or not. Several usability analysis and studies were applied with unflattering results. The results of all applied analysis show that the overall ergonomics of the portal is not at a satisfactory level and that there is no significant imp rovement on the portal in the last year.

Keywords

Ergonomics, Usability Analysis, eAGRI portal, Human-Computer Interface, Five second test, Thirty second test, Heuristic evaluation, First click test.

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