mLUX: Usability and User Experience Development Framework for M-Learning

Dirin, Amir; Nieminen, Marko

doi:10.3991/ijim.v9i3.4446

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“…Furthermore, MAR UX design, development and evaluation are somehow different than those of traditional mobile applications. From the MAR concept design perspective, UCD frameworks, such as mLUX (m-Learning User eXperience) [30], provide relevant concept development methods that ensure appropriate usability together with UX factors, including, but not limited to delightfulness, reliability and adjustability.…”

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“…Pelet and Taieb [29] focus on mobile application design to promote UX, with recommendations on how color contrast can be used to impact the positive effects on behavioral intentions. Furthermore, Dirin and Nieminen [30] propose a usability and UX framework for mobile learning applications. The framework has been proven to promote UX in a mobile-based application by making the application adjustable, delightful and reliable, all of which are factors contributing to the emotional dimension of UX.…”

Section: Defining Mobile User Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

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User Experience in Mobile Augmented Reality: Emotions, Challenges, Opportunities and Best Practices

Dirin

Laine

2018

Computers

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Abstract:Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) is gaining a strong momentum to become a major interactive technology that can be applied across domains and purposes. The rapid proliferation of MAR applications in global mobile application markets has been fueled by a range of freely-available MAR software development kits and content development tools, some of which enable the creation of MAR applications even without programming skills. Despite the recent advances of MAR technology and tools, there are still many challenges associated with MAR from the User Experience (UX) design perspective. In this study, we first define UX as the emotions that the user encounters while using a service, a product or an application and then explore the recent research on the topic. We present two case studies, a commercial MAR experience and our own Virtual Campus Tour MAR application, and evaluate them from the UX perspective, with a focus on emotions. Next, we synthesize the findings from previous research and the results of the case study evaluations to form sets of challenges, opportunities and best practices related to UX design of MAR applications. Based on the identified best practices, we finally present an updated version of the Virtual Campus Tour. The results can be used for improving UX design of future MAR applications, thus making them emotionally engaging.

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Section: Defining Mobile User Experiencementioning

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User Experience in Mobile Augmented Reality: Emotions, Challenges, Opportunities and Best Practices

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Laine

2018

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“…For the CANA application concept development, we applied the mobile application development framework (mLUX) (Dirin and Nieminen 2015). The mLUX framework consists of three layers: (1) the role-players, (2) the process, and (3) the context of use.…”

Section: Concept Development Methodology: the Mlux Frameworkmentioning

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Machine learning and dynamic user interfaces in a context aware nurse application environment

Ham

Dirin

Laine

2016

J Ambient Intell Human Comput

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The increasing usage of smartphones in daily life has received considerable attention in academic and industry driven research to be utilized in the health sector. There has been development of a variety of health-related smartphone applications. Currently, however, there are few to none applications based on nurses' historical or behavioral preferences. Mobile application development for the health care sector requires extensive attention to security, reliability, and accuracy. In nursing applications, the users are often required to navigate in hospital environments, select patients to support, read the patient history and set action points to assist the patient during their shift. Finally, they have to report their performance on patient related activities and other relevant information before they leave for the day. In a working day, a nurse often visits different locations such as the patient's room, different laboratories, and offices for filling reports. There is still a limited capability to access context relevant information on a smartphone with minimal recourse such as Wi-Fi triangulation. The Wi-Fi triangulation signals fluctuate significantly for indoor location positioning. Therefore, providing relevant location based services to a mobile subscriber has become challenging. This paper addresses this gap by applying machine learning and behavior analysis to anticipate the potential location of the nurse and provide the required services. The application concept was already presented at the IMCOM 2015 conference. This paper focuses on the process to ascertain a user's context, the process of analyzing and predicting user behavior, and finally, the process of displaying the information through a dynamically generated UI.

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“…To develop the context-aware tourism application concept, we applied the mLUX mobile application development framework [41]. The mLUX framework consists of three layers: the role-players, the processes, and the context of use.…”

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“…The students applied the mLUX framework [41] during the project implementation process. A functional prototype of the application was developed as a student thesis project.…”

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Managing Emotional Requirements in a Context-Aware Mobile Application for Tourists

Dirin¹,

Laine²,

Alamäki³

2018

Int. J. Interact. Mob. Technol.

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Abstract-The objective of this study was to unveil the importance of emotions and feelings in developing mobile-based tourism applications. We gathered and analyzed emotional requirements to develop a mobile context-aware application for tourists. Emotional requirements are non-functional requirements affecting users' emotional experiences around using applications, which are important for sustainable application usage. Many tourism applications exist, but were designed without considering emotional requirements or related UX factors and emotions. We developed a proof-of-concept prototype servicebased context-aware tourism application (SCATA), and users participated in the design and evaluation processes. Emotional requirements are key to sustainable usage, especially regarding security. This paper details the application design and evaluation processes, emotional requirements analysis in each design phase, and the emotional effects of content accessibility in the application's offline mode in unknown environments. The results show that trust, security, adjustability, and reliability are important factors to users, especially in unknown environments.

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mLUX: Usability and User Experience Development Framework for M-Learning

Cited by 29 publications

References 34 publications

User Experience in Mobile Augmented Reality: Emotions, Challenges, Opportunities and Best Practices

User Experience in Mobile Augmented Reality: Emotions, Challenges, Opportunities and Best Practices

Machine learning and dynamic user interfaces in a context aware nurse application environment

Managing Emotional Requirements in a Context-Aware Mobile Application for Tourists

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