Usability Testing of Mobile Flipboard Application on both Non-Users and Novice Users

Authors

  • Marwah Naeem Hassooni Al-Kinani School of Computing, Universiti Utara Malaysia, 06010 UUM Sintok, Kedah
  • Sumayyah Bukola Adetunmbi School of Computing, Universiti Utara Malaysia, 06010 UUM Sintok, Kedah
  • Azham Hussain School of Computing, Universiti Utara Malaysia, 06010 UUM Sintok, Kedah

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v14i05.13341

Keywords:

news aggregator, usability, testing, magazine, evaluation method, mobile application.

Abstract


This paper aims to discuss how journalism in a network has transformed the production and circulation of news and as gate keeping and motivation setting, from the action interdependence of ordinary people, journalists, organizations and advanced innovations (such as blogs, Twitter, Facebook and Flipboard). Finally, we analyze the interactions in the Flipboard mobile app. We carried out a study consisting of 13 participants in UUM Sintok, they were assigned five tasks to perform and questionnaires were distributed to gather their experience with the app. The results of this study showed that participants were satisfied with the application's aesthetic but find the complexity of features provided in the application to perform various functions very frustrating to use.

Author Biographies

Marwah Naeem Hassooni Al-Kinani, School of Computing, Universiti Utara Malaysia, 06010 UUM Sintok, Kedah

School of Computing, Universiti Utara Malaysia

Sumayyah Bukola Adetunmbi, School of Computing, Universiti Utara Malaysia, 06010 UUM Sintok, Kedah

School of Computing, Universiti Utara Malaysia

Azham Hussain, School of Computing, Universiti Utara Malaysia, 06010 UUM Sintok, Kedah

School of Computing, Universiti Utara Malaysia

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Published

2020-04-07

How to Cite

Hassooni Al-Kinani, M. N., Adetunmbi, S. B., & Hussain, A. (2020). Usability Testing of Mobile Flipboard Application on both Non-Users and Novice Users. International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), 14(05), pp. 47–56. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v14i05.13341

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 05 (2020)

Section

Papers

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