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Application of Learning Curve to evaluate Product Learnability

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  • Jung, Kwang-Tae (Department of Industrial Design Engineering, KUT) ;
  • Hong, Ja-In (Department of Industrial Design Engineering, KUT)
  • 정광태 (한국기술교육대학교 디자인공학과) ;
  • 홍자인 (한국기술교육대학교 디자인공학과)
  • Published : 2008.06.01

Abstract

Product usability consists of many attributes such as learnability, efficiency, memorability, and so on. In particular, learnability is one of the most important attributes in product usability. Therefore, many people consider the primary criterion for a good user interface to be the degree to which it is easy to learn. Learnability represents the degree of how much can easily learn the usage of a product. It concerns the features of the interactive system that allow novice users to understand how to use it initially and then how to attain a maximal level of performance. In this study, we studied on the application of learning curve to evaluate product learnability. In order to validate the applicability, we carried out simple experiment using mobile phone. We got task completion times through the experiment and predicted the times using learning curve model. And then, we compared prediction times to task completion times. Finally, we identified that learning curve could apply to predict and compare product learnability.

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