Towards Compromise User Experience Design in Ambient Intelligent Environment

Veronika AnderPetr CihelkaJan TyrychtrDavid Novák

DOI 10.7160/aol.2022.140201
No 2/2022, June
pp. 3-13

Ander, V., Cihelka, P., Tyrychtr, J. and Novák, D. (2022) "Towards Compromise User Experience Design in Ambient Intelligent Environment", AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 3-13. ISSN 1804-1930. DOI 10.7160/aol.2022.140201.

Abstract

Building, testing and evaluating UX for applications for Agricultural Ambient Intelligence Environments can be a difficult and time-consuming job. It can be an even longer and more challenging process due to their complexity and area of scope for complex intelligent systems. Many studies address the issue of UX design and evaluation of website user interface, mobiles, tangible equipment, wearable equipment and other, but it is necessary to look for UX deficiencies in all possible functions, every possible task. Depending on the structure of expert teams, experts’ opinions can vary broadly vary or may even contradict. This paper presents possibilities of use the Best-Compromise-Mean (BeCoMe) method for evaluation UX design. BeCoMe was not used for UX evaluation yet. Verification of whether the BeCoMe method is suitable for UX evaluation is carried out on a tablet using two prototypes of control panels of an intelligent environment.

Keywords

User experience, interaction design, user interface, eye-tracking, BeCoMe, usability.

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