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  • Unit 1: Introduction to Mobile Application Development
  • Unit 2: Infrastructure
  • Unit 3: HTML/CSS/DOM and Scripting
  • Unit 4: JQuery and Structured Data
  • Unit 5: Scripting with Server Access
  • Unit 6: Designing Mobile User Interfaces
  • Unit 7: Mobile Application Evaluation and Mobile Browsers
  • Unit 8: Mobile Platforms
  • Unit 9: Storage and Geolocation
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  • 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.

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