CS412: Mobile Application Development, Topic: Unit 7: Mobile Application Evaluation and Mobile Browsers

Unit 7: Mobile Application Evaluation and Mobile Browsers
Once a mobile application has been developed, you will want to test it for usability. In this unit, we will talk about ways of evaluating mobile apps. We will also look at the differences between traditional browsers and mobile browsers and identify the elements that must be taken into consideration when designing an application for deployment on a mobile browser.

Completing this unit should take you approximately 4 hours.
- Unit 7 Learning Outcomes Page
- 7.1: Mobile Device User Interaction Patterns
  - University of California, Berkeley: Erik Wilde's "Evaluating and Iterating on Mobile User Interfaces" URL
    
    Read these slides.
- 7.2: Evaluating Mobile User Interfaces
  - 7.2.1: Expert Evaluation
    7.2.1.1: Cognitive Walkthrough
    Drexel University: Professor William Zhang's "Cognitive Walkthrough" URL
    
    Read this page.
    University of Colorado Boulder: Clayton Lewis and John Rieman's "Cognitive Walkthroughs" URL
    
    Read section 4.1.
    7.2.1.2: Heuristic Evaluation
    University of Colorado Boulder: Clayton Lewis and John Rieman's "Heuristic Analysis" URL
    
    Read section 4.3.
  - 7.2.2: User Evaluation in the Lab
    University of Colorado Boulder: Clayton Lewis and John Rieman's "The Thinking Aloud Method" URL
    
    Read section 5.5
    U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services: "Usability Testing" URL
    
    Read this article.
  - 7.2.3: User Evaluation in the Field
    7.2.3.1: Diary Study
    University of California, Berkeley: Nancy Van House's "Arbitron Diary Study" URL
    
    Read this document.
    7.2.3.2: Experience Sampling Method
    University of California, Davis: Barbara Sommer's "Experience Sampling Method" URL
    
    Read this page.
    7.2.3.3: Logging Study
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Diane Kelly's "Methods for Evaluating Interactive Information Retrieval Systems with Users" URL
    
    Read pages 87-91.
- 7.3: Mobile Browsers and Browsers
  - University of California, Berkeley: Erik Wilde's "Mobile Web vs. Web" URL
    
    Read these slides.
- 7.4: Mobile Browser Evolution
  - University of Camerino: Alex Luciani's "Browser Evolution" URL
    
    Read these slides.

Unit 7: Mobile Application Evaluation and Mobile Browsers

7.1: Mobile Device User Interaction Patterns

7.2: Evaluating Mobile User Interfaces

7.2.1: Expert Evaluation

7.2.1.1: Cognitive Walkthrough

7.2.1.2: Heuristic Evaluation

7.2.2: User Evaluation in the Lab

7.2.3: User Evaluation in the Field

7.2.3.1: Diary Study

7.2.3.2: Experience Sampling Method

7.2.3.3: Logging Study

7.3: Mobile Browsers and Browsers

7.4: Mobile Browser Evolution