Mémoires de Fin d’Etudes
Etablissement
Université de Béjaia - Abderrahmane Mira
Affiliation
Département d’Informatique
Auteur
SELMANE, Samir
Directeur de thèse
Djilali IDOUGHI (Maitre de conférence)
Filière
Informatique
Diplôme
Magister
Titre
EVALUATING PERVASIVE AND UBIQUITOUS SYSTMS
Mots clés
Ubiquitous systems, evaluation methods,
Résumé
Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) applications are applications that are embedded seamlessly and ubiquitously into our everyday lives. The study of Ubiquitous Computing is concerned with enabling a future in which the most useful applications of such technology are feasible to build, and pleasing to use. But what is useful? What is usable? What do people actually need? These questions are only beginning to be answered partly because Ubicomp systems are more difficult to evaluate, particularly at the early stages of design, than desktop applications. This difficulty is due to, (1) Ubicomp systems may break the assumptions of single user, productivity oriented tasks that underlie most of the commonly used evaluation techniques. This means that those techniques may not be applicable, or may require modifications in order to be effective. (2) Evaluation techniques for early-stage design, such as Heuristic Evaluation, and paper-based prototyping may not easily scale to the number of devices and scenarios in which Ubicomp systems are typically designed. (3) Ubicomp systems are still very difficult to build, and it is rare for them to be used outside of a laboratory setting. This makes it difficult to iterate quickly, and difficult to get real use data using later-stage evaluation technique.
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