Evaluating the Pilot Usability for Telenursing-based Cancer Pain Monitoring System

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the pilot usability used in a telenursing-based cancer pain monitoring system. Health care providers and advanced cancer patients who visited a hospital as outpatients (n=10/group) used and evaluated the system using a Web Usability Scale (WUS) and free description. Of the WUS seven factors, “comprehensibility” and “content reliability” received good evaluation, and “ease of operation”, “visual effects”, “responsiveness”, “usefulness”, and “acceptablity” didn’t received good evaluation. In the free description, the system was evaluated to enhance self-management of cancer pain, a request for expansion of operation, and social issues were shown. Improving patient usability is an issue, and sufficient orientation is required to verify the effects.

Usabilidad de los sitios Web, los métodos y las técnicas para la evaluación / Usability of Web sites, methods and evaluation techniques

En la sociedad actual es incuestionable la relevancia de la Web, y existe una gran variedad de sitios web que brindan servicio a los usuarios. En este contexto, la usabilidad juega un papel primordial en el proceso de desarrollo de sitios web de éxito. En este artículo se revisan diferentes definiciones sobre la disciplina usabilidad, su incorporación en el proceso de ingeniería (ingeniería de la usabilidad) y su relación con la ingeniería de software, sus atributos y métodos de evaluación. Se presentan las consideraciones sobre el sistema de evaluación de la usabilidad Web orientado al usuario y basado en la determinación de tareas críticas (SIRIUS revisado por las autoras)

In the present society, the relevance of the Web is unquestionable and there is a great variety of Web sites that offer services to users. In this context, usability plays a fundamental role in the process of developing successful Web sites. In this article we review different definitions about the discipline of usability, its incorporation in the engineering process (usability engineering) and its relation to software engineer, as well as its attributes and evaluation methods. The considerations about the evaluation system of the Web usability are also presented, advising the user and basing it in the establishment of critical tasks (SIRIUS, reviewed by the authors)