Objective
The project's mission was to facilitate the uptake of IBCN by optimising the design of IBC equipment. The strategic objective of the project was to provide a means whereby instances of usage of IBC equipment are identified and developers of such equipment can have access to expert advice on how to incorporate ease of use, user friendliness, or usability into the final product.
Research was carried out in order to facilitate the uptake of integrated broadband communications networks (IBCN) by optimizing the design of integrated broadband communications networks (IBC) equipment. Particular achievements were:
an improved concept of usability design targets (UDT);
validated methodology for the production of UDT;
an interface and preproduction version of the database;
over 100 experimental UDTs which were tested for content, structure and form.
Technical Approach
The technical approach consists of storing this information in a taxonomic manner in a specifically tailored data base accessed by easy-to-use MMI software, enabling the database user to relate the characteristics of end-users, their environments and their tasks to guidelines for terminal and other equipment design teams. The means selected is a database containing usability design targets'(UDTs) whereby the IBC equipment developer is asked to specify the intended usage scenario and thereby access the appropriate database records to assemble the relevant 'usability' advice.
Key Issues
. To develop a definition and form of usability design targets.
. To classify the needs of the database user (the IBC equipment developer) as well as the instances of use of the equipment by an IBC user.
. To produce a methodology for manufacturing UDTs.
. To develop the necessary computer techniques (database and user interface) and testing these various methods and techniques within specific application pilots in the RACE programme.
Achievements
. An improved concept of UDT.
. Validated methodology for the production of UDT.
. An interface and pre-production version of the database.
. Over 100 experimental UDTs which were tested for content, structure and form.
Expected Impact
The project supported application pilots and usage reference model activities
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software
- natural sciences computer and information sciences databases
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Italy
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