Paper Info
Title
A heuristic evaluation of the user and programming interfaces of a sleep medicine application.
Abstract
In many cases, the development of computer systems to help clinicians make decisions does not take into account fundamental aspects for the integration of these systems into routine clinical practice, such as aspects related to usability. In our case, the system under consideration is MIASoft, a comprehensive medical decision-support system for the diagnosis of Sleep Apnea-Hypopnea Syndrome (SAHS). Our objective is to perform a heuristic evaluation of this tool following a systematic and generalizable approach based on using comprehensive taxonomies of usability and context-of-use attributes as a source for the heuristics. We focus our analysis on two possible interfaces: (1) the graphical user interface, in which users interact directly with the tool and (2) the programming interface, in which programmers interact with the Application Program Interface (API) of MIASoft. Although both approaches are quite different, the same methodology was used for their heuristic evaluation. This demonstrates that we can retain the usefulness, ease of use, and generalizability of heuristic evaluation while adding depth and structure since we are basing our study on a comprehensive usability model.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3167132.3167204
SAC 2018: Symposium on Applied Computing Pau France April, 2018
Keywords
Field
DocType
Usability analysis, API Usability, Sleep Medicine
Generalizability theory,Heuristic evaluation,Computer science,Usability,Clinical Practice,Sleep medicine,Human–computer interaction,Graphical user interface,Heuristics,Application programming interface
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5191-1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eduardo Mosqueira-Rey19311.62
David Alonso-Ríos2706.61
Vicente Moret-Bonillo320126.17