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TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring the facebook experience: a new approach to usability
AU - Hart, Jennefer
AU - Ridley, C
AU - Taher, Faisal
AU - Sas, Corina
AU - Dix, A
N1 - © ACM, 2008 This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in NordiCHI '08 Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: building bridges 2008 https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1463160.1463222
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - The focus of this paper is to explore social networking sites like Facebook in order to understand their recent success and popularity. Recent developments within Web 2.0 have provided users with more freedom to create their own unique user experiences. The conflict between traditional usability methods and user experiences are addressed through carrying out a Heuristic Evaluation to assess how well Facebook complies with usability guidelines and by conducting a user study to unveil unique user experiences. The findings of this study calls for a more holistic method of evaluation that redefines usability to encompass the user experience in line with future technology.
AB - The focus of this paper is to explore social networking sites like Facebook in order to understand their recent success and popularity. Recent developments within Web 2.0 have provided users with more freedom to create their own unique user experiences. The conflict between traditional usability methods and user experiences are addressed through carrying out a Heuristic Evaluation to assess how well Facebook complies with usability guidelines and by conducting a user study to unveil unique user experiences. The findings of this study calls for a more holistic method of evaluation that redefines usability to encompass the user experience in line with future technology.
U2 - 10.1145/1463160.1463222
DO - 10.1145/1463160.1463222
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9781595937049
SP - 471
EP - 474
BT - NordiCHI '08 Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: building bridges
PB - ACM Press
CY - New York
T2 - NordiCHI
Y2 - 20 October 2008 through 22 October 2008
ER -