Non-empirical ISO 9241-210:2019-based usability evaluation using fuzzy inference analyser: a special issue on interactive social robots
ISSN: 0737-8831
Article publication date: 12 May 2022
Issue publication date: 22 August 2022
Abstract
Purpose
The objective of this research was to develop a new and highly accurate approach based on a fuzzy inference system (FIS) for the evaluation of usability based on ISO 9241-210:2019. In this study, a fully automated method of usability evaluation is used for interactive systems with a special look at interactive social robots.
Design/methodology/approach
Fuzzy logic uses as an intelligent computing technique to deal with uncertainty and incomplete data. Here this system is implemented using MATLAB fuzzy toolbox. This system attempted to quantify four criteria that correlate highly with ISO 9241-210:2019 criteria for the evaluation of interactive systems with maximum usability. Also, the system was evaluated with standard cases of computer interactive systems usability evaluation. The system did not need to train various data and to check the rules. Just small data were used to fine-tune the fuzzy sets. The results were compared against experimental usability evaluation with the statistical analysis.
Findings
It is found that there was a high strong linear relation between the FIS usability assessment and System Usability Scale (SUS) based usability assessment, and authors’ new method provides reliable results in the estimation of the usability.
Research limitations/implications
In human-robot systems, human performance plays an important role in the performance of social interactive systems. In the present study, the proposed system has considered all the necessary criteria for designing an interactive system with a high level of user because it is based on ISO 9241-210:2019.
Practical implications
For future research, the system could be expanded with the training of historical data and the production of rules through integrating FIS and neural networks.
Originality/value
This system considered all essential criteria for designing an interactive system with a high level of usability because it is based on ISO 9241-210:2019. For future research, the system could be expanded with the training of historical data and the production of rules through integrating FIS and neural networks.
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Acknowledgements
The present publication is the outcome of the project “From Talent to Young Researcher project aimed at activities supporting the research career model in higher education”, identifier EFOP-3.6.3-VEKOP-16-2017-00007 co-supported by the European Union, Hungary and the European Social Fund.
Funding: No Funding
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This article does not contain any studies with human or animal participants performed by any of the authors.
Availability of data and materials: Data used from Kortum and Bangor (2013).
Conflict of Interest: No Conflict of Interest.
Citation
Asemi, A., Asemi, A. and Tahaei, H. (2022), "Non-empirical ISO 9241-210:2019-based usability evaluation using fuzzy inference analyser: a special issue on interactive social robots", Library Hi Tech, Vol. 40 No. 4, pp. 976-993. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-02-2022-0091
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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