ITC504 | TEAM EVALUATION | USER INTERFACE

Task

Overview
Your assignment is to conduct a usability evaluation of another teams design.

Team Setup
This assignment is the second of the team assignments for this subject. The rationale for this assignment is that you are part of a team of expert reviewers who have been tasked to evaluate a design for usability issues.

Team Member Responsibilities
Each team member will be assessed on:

• • The final usability evaluation presented by the team;
  • The individual contributions that they have made to the usability evaluation. This will be shown by the entries that they have made in the Team Interact Forum.

Team members should note that:

• • A total of 50% of the overall marks for this assignment are for individual contributions. Marks will be allocated for:

• • 1. The usability evaluation of the design (50%), and
    2. Individual team member contributions to the usability evaluation (50%)
  • A team member who cannot show evidence of any individual contributions in the Team Forum will be regarded as having not contributed to the evaluation. This will result in no marks being awarded to that team member for this assignment.
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  Team Tasks:

1. The team will be required to evaluate a design for usability issues.
2. The team can use either the Neilsen & Molich heuristic or the DECIDE framework for the usability evaluation.
3. The team will submit a 3-5 page report which details:
4. The design evaluated;
5. The heuristic or framework being used for the evaluation.
6. Each heading in the heuristic or framework should be listed followed by a discussion of the related issues found on the Mobile App. This should include:

(1). What the issue is and where is it located

(2) Why the issue is a problem;

(3) Whether the issue is a significant or a minor issue

(4). Possible remediation actions that could resolve the issues found.

4. Indicate in your team forum the reasoning behind your evaluation decisions. This reasoning must demonstrate input from each member of the team.

Important Note
Your team evaluation will be given to the team responsible for the design. Your team should ensure that:

• • The usability evaluation is as accurate as possible;

Rationale

This assessment aligns with the following learning outcomes of this subject:

• • be able to evaluate an interface to determine its effective usability and identify enhancements for improvement;
  • be able to design a set of appropriate usability tests for a given interface;

Marking criteria

Question	HD	DI	CR	PS	FL
Use a usability heuristic to evaluate a design (30 marks)	Comprehensive heuristic based evaluation that covers all aspects of the design. It identifies all issues, and determines why they are an issue.	Thorough  heuristic based evaluation  that covers most aspects of the design. It identifies most issues, and determines why they are an issue.	Detailed  heuristic based evaluation that covers many aspects of the design. It identifies many issues, and determines why they are an issue.	Adequate  heuristic based evaluation that covers some aspects of the design. It identifies some issues	Incomplete or irrelevant heuristic  evaluation that ignores or does not comment on most of the issues
Discuss the remediation of the usability issues discovered (20 marks)	Comprehensive discussion of the remediation of all issues discovered; In-depth interpretation of discoveries where conclusions and are directly drawn from the evaluation conducted is explicitly included.	Thorough  discussion of the remediation of most issues discovered including evidence of drawing interpretation from evaluation	Good discussion of remediation of many issues discovered including some evidence of drawing interpretation from evaluation	Adequate  discussion of remediation of some issues discovered including some evidence of drawing interpretation from evaluation	Incomplete or irrelevant  discussion of the remediation of any issues discovered
Interaction on forum (10 marks)	Student is actively engaging in innovative approaches to peer interaction that foster deeper collaboration and co-construction of new knowledge	Student is actively co-constructing knowledge with their peers through cooperation and collaboration	Students is interacting with peers with evidence of collaboration & moderation; engaging with discussion topics posed by peers	Some evidence of student Interaction, with student responding to peers on the discussion board	No evidence of interaction on forums.
Quality of forum interaction (10 marks)	Proactively initiates and facilitates discussion, explicitly using appropriate strategies and tools.	Initiates and facilitates discussion using appropriate strategies and tools.	Evidence that there is some engagement on the topics with peers in the forums.	Some evidence of responding to questions or topics on the discussion forum.	No evidence of interaction on forums.
Contribution to evaluation (30 marks)	Proactively initiates and facilitates discussion on evaluation issues and remediation actions	Initiates and facilitates discussion on evaluation issues and remediation actions	Evidence of a continued engagement with peers but suggests few solutions.	Some evidence of responding to questions on issues,  but not involved in developing solution	No evidence of interaction on forums.
Presentation, spelling and grammar	Up to 5 marks may be deducted for poor presentation, spelling and grammar

Presentation

The team is to submit a report that:

• • Identifies the design being evaluated and the heuristic being used to evaluate it.
  • Discusses all the usability issues that are discovered on the Mobile App, as outlined in task 3 above. (30 marks)
  • Discusses possible remediation actions that could resolve the issues. (20 marks)

Online submission via Turnitin is required for this assignment. Details will be provided by your subject lecturer.