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Recently, user-centered user interface design principles for PCs have been presented, such as design consistency or design simplicity. However, those principles are generally based on design specialists’ experiences, and thus there are relatively few studies that have explored the design principles based on a theoretical foundation. Therefore, the need for empirical studies on the heuristic GUI design principles has been gradually increasing. This study was designed to identify the effects of the heuristic GUI design principles presented in the environment of PCs on the system users’ convenience, i.e., particularly on information access in the current mobile computing environment. The aims of this study are to verify the influence of design consistency and simplicity employed for GUIs of mobile applications on the users’ understandability of GUIs; and furthermore, to identify the effects of GUI understandability on the accessibility to information via mobile applications of users. Data were collected through a survey and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was employed to analyze the data. The results found that in the environment of mobile application, there was a verification of: the influence of design consistency and design simplicity on the users’ GUI understandability of mobile applications; and furthermore, the resulting effects of that GUI understandability on the accessibility to information of users.
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Jung, W. (2016). The Effects of Heuristic GUI Principles on the Accessibility of Information in the Context of Mobile Application. In: Park, J., Jin, H., Jeong, YS., Khan, M. (eds) Advanced Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 393. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1536-6_68
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