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Developing a heuristic tool for Evaluation of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) Mobile Application Interfaces

Developing a heuristic tool for Evaluation of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) Mobile Application Interfaces
Developing a heuristic tool for Evaluation of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) Mobile Application Interfaces
Mobility as a Service (MaaS) mobile phone applications are being launched in many towns and cities worldwide and are heralded as the ultimate modern mobility solution by combining private, public, micro and active travel options. However, in order to encourage adoption by the public the user-experience (UX) is of high importance. A useful way to evaluate the UX of an app interface is to use heuristics analysis, yet none of the existing heuristics tools are tailored towards mobility apps. This means they are not suitable for a systematic evaluation of MaaS interfaces. Therefore a new heuristics tool was developed in order to evaluate the interfaces of mobility apps, including MaaS. This was achieved through the evaluation of existing heuristics combined with the determination of the needs of the mobility app user. A number of iterations were developed, tested and revised in order to design a useful and usable tool.
Richardson, Joy
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Howarth, Henrietta
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Kim, Jisun
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Richardson, Joy
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Howarth, Henrietta
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Kim, Jisun
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Richardson, Joy, Howarth, Henrietta and Kim, Jisun (2022) Developing a heuristic tool for Evaluation of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) Mobile Application Interfaces. Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors. 11 - 12 Apr 2023.

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Abstract

Mobility as a Service (MaaS) mobile phone applications are being launched in many towns and cities worldwide and are heralded as the ultimate modern mobility solution by combining private, public, micro and active travel options. However, in order to encourage adoption by the public the user-experience (UX) is of high importance. A useful way to evaluate the UX of an app interface is to use heuristics analysis, yet none of the existing heuristics tools are tailored towards mobility apps. This means they are not suitable for a systematic evaluation of MaaS interfaces. Therefore a new heuristics tool was developed in order to evaluate the interfaces of mobility apps, including MaaS. This was achieved through the evaluation of existing heuristics combined with the determination of the needs of the mobility app user. A number of iterations were developed, tested and revised in order to design a useful and usable tool.

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Published date: 23 June 2022
Venue - Dates: Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors, 2023-04-11 - 2023-04-12

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Local EPrints ID: 473616
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/473616
PURE UUID: 52b48246-4073-435f-9239-7e8396111fe1
ORCID for Joy Richardson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7716-5370
ORCID for Jisun Kim: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0119-4313

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Date deposited: 25 Jan 2023 17:32
Last modified: 23 Feb 2023 03:15

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Author: Joy Richardson ORCID iD
Author: Jisun Kim ORCID iD

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