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Ergonomic adjustments on a website from the usability of functions: Can deficits impair functionalities?/Adequacoes ergonomicas em website a partir da usabilidade das funcoes: podem os deficits prejudicar as funcionalidades?
Current study assesses whether deficits and usability of ergonomics impair the functionality of a university website. The concepts of functionality, usability and ergonomics were foregrounded by contextualizing them within a university profile. Later, a satisfaction survey was proposed to users to m...
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Published in: | Acta scientiarum. Technology 2017-10, Vol.39 (4), p.477 |
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Main Authors: | , , , , |
Format: | Article |
Language: | Spanish |
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Summary: | Current study assesses whether deficits and usability of ergonomics impair the functionality of a university website. The concepts of functionality, usability and ergonomics were foregrounded by contextualizing them within a university profile. Later, a satisfaction survey was proposed to users to measure the satisfaction in the use of the website and to map the problems in usability. In addition, an ergonomic inspection was performed on the site by applying Bastien and Scapin's ergonomic criteria. After analyzing results by descriptive statistics and content analysis, the ergonomic and usability problems were detected, or rather, feedback deficits, minimum action (navigation), flexibility and experience impaired the excellence of website's functionality, causing dissatisfaction or abandonment of the website by the users. After the analysis of the results, ergonomic adjustments were suggested for the website. They may be a help in new website projects or adjust products in which usability has not been incorporated to the development process. Keywords: ergonomics, software quality, website evaluation. Esta pesquisa visa a avaliar se os deficits de ergonomia e de usabilidade podem se sobrepor as funcionalidades, em website de universidade. Buscou-se, inicialmente, fundamentar os conceitos de funcionalidade, de usabilidade e de ergonomia, contextualizando esses conceitos em relacao ao perfil de uma Universidade. Posteriormente, realizou-se uma pesquisa de satisfacao (survey) junto aos usuarios, com o objetivo de mensurar a satisfacao de uso do website, bem como mapear os problemas de usabilidade percebidos. Em complemento, realizou-se uma inspecao ergonomica do site, atraves da aplicacao dos criterios ergonomicos de Bastien e Scapin. Apos a analise dos resultados por meio de estatistica descritiva e analise de conteudo, observaram-se problemas de ergonomia e de usabilidade, em que deficits de feedback, acoes minimas (navegacao), flexibilidade e experiencia prejudicaram a excelencia das funcionalidades do portal, gerando insatisfacao ou descarte pelos usuarios. Sugeriu-se, apos a analise dos resultados, adequacoes ergonomicas ao website, que podem orientar o projeto de novos websites ou adequar os produtos em que a usabilidade nao tenha sido incorporada ao processo de desenvolvimento. Palavras-chave: ergonomia, qualidade de software, avaliacao de website. |
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ISSN: | 1806-2563 |
DOI: | 10.4025/actascitechnol.v39i4.30511 |