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Usability Heuristics for Grid Computing Applications

Authors:
Cristian Rusu
Silvana Roncagliolo
Gonzalo Tapia
Danae Hayvar
Virginica Rusu
Dorian Gorgan

Keywords: usability; usability heuristics; grid computing applications

Abstract:
Usability evaluation for applications based on emerging information technology brings new challenges. Grid Computing is a relatively new, distributed computing technology, based on sharing different types of computational resources, located in various geographic locations. Technical knowledge of grid users is expected to decrease in the future; that is why the usability of Grid Computing applications will become a main issue. There is a need for new usability evaluation methods or at least for the use of traditional evaluations in novel ways. A set of heuristics is proposed and validated, in order to help the heuristic evaluations of Grid Computing applications.

Pages: 53 to 58

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: February 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4138

ISBN: 978-1-61208-117-5

Location: Gosier, Guadeloupe, France

Dates: from February 23, 2011 to February 28, 2011