A User-Friendly Design of an Interactive Prototype for the Maintenance and Monitoring of Civilian Training Records

Abstract

The objectives of this thesis are to identify through research and user involvement the issues relating to user satisfaction concerning the man computer interface and then prototype an interactive design based upon those identified issues. The Civilian Personnel Office, Naval Postgraduate School, was chosen for the area of evaluation and application, since it has on-line computer capabilities that are idle because of the difficulty of use. The thesis process developed a working prototype using guidelines identified through research and user involvement of user friendly software. An important conclusion of this study is the observation that while interactive system development should commence with independent designs of both the functional application and the user interface, recognition of the interrelationships that might be created by the implementation environment can have a significant impact on the quality of system performance and must be thoroughly investigated before final system design. Keywords: Ease of use; Human factors engineering; Theses.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA201945

Entities

People

  • Ivon R. Young Jr.
  • Sharon E. Slominski

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Civilian Personnel
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Literature Surveys
  • Management Personnel
  • Prototypes
  • Software Development
  • Systems Management
  • User Interface

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