Top Research Papers on UX Design

The authors show the ways in which AI can enhance such activities and assume tasks that have been typically performed by humans in the user experience (UX) design process.

This research presents multiple user studies that can be used to assess the usefulness of a cyberlearning environment used in Computer Science and Software Engineering courses through testing its usability and measuring its utility using user interface and user experience evaluations and proposes an evaluation framework to evaluate cyberlearning environments.

Usability and user experience (UX) are important concepts in the design and evaluation of products or systems intended for human use. This chapter introduces the fundamentals of design for usability and UX, focusing on the application of science, art, and craft to their principled design. It reviews the major methods of usability assessment, focusing on usability testing. The concept of UX casts a broad net over all of the experiential aspects of use, primarily subjective experience. User-centered design and design thinking are methods used to produce initial designs, after which they typicall...

This work proposes a user experience (UX)-oriented structured method to investigate the human-robot dialogue to map the interaction with robots during the execution of shared tasks, and to finally elicit the requirements for the design of valuable HRI.

An algorithm-informed XAI question bank is developed in which user needs for explainability are represented as prototypical questions users might ask about the AI, and used as a study probe to identify gaps between current XAI algorithmic work and practices to create explainable AI products.

Understanding the user experience of chatbots for customer service is essential to realize the potential of this technology. Such chatbots are typically designed for efficient and effective interactions, accentuating pragmatic quality, and there is a need to understand how to make these more pleasant and engaging, strengthening hedonic quality. One promising approach is to design for more humanlike chatbot interactions, that is, interactions resembling those of skilled customer service personnel. In a randomized experiment (n = 35) we investigated two chatbot interaction design features that m...

The results show that AX is inherently related to human understanding of fairness, transparency, and other conventional components of user-experience, indicating the heuristic roles of transparency and fairness regarding their underlying relations of user experience and trust.

ChatGPT, a general-purpose conversation chatbot released on November 30, 2022, by OpenAI, is expected to impact every aspect of society. However, the potential impacts of this NLP tool on education remain unknown. Such impact can be enormous as the capacity of ChatGPT may drive changes to educational learning goals, learning activities, and assessment and evaluation practices. This study was conducted by piloting ChatGPT to write an academic paper, titled Artificial Intelligence for Education (see Appendix A). The piloting result suggests that ChatGPT is able to help researchers write a paper ...

It is underscores that user experience concerning conversational AI like ChatGPT is assessed by useful and productive interactions even in early phase of uptake, suggesting the importance of pragmatic attributes.

A framework for mHealth application design that combines the Information Systems Research (ISR) framework and design thinking and the use of this framework as a guide in the design of user-centred mHealth interventions is supported.

This study adopts a technology affordance theory lens to identify the main mechanisms contributing to the user experience in the short-video platform context while including user experience level and video length as moderating effects.

To make an interface simultaneously usable for users from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds will require a very large amount of adaptation, but the powerful principles of plasticity of user interface design hold the future promise of an optimum tool to achieve cross-cultural usability.

The findings indicated that human ‐ to ‐ machine interaction influences cognitive absorption more positively compared to human ‬ to ‬ human interactions.

Purpose In the emerging transformation economy, there is a shift from staging memorable experiences for many to eliciting life-transformative events for one. This study aims to understand how transformative experiences can be guided and what prerequisites are needed to elicit human transformation when designing experiences. This study borrows positive psychology as a theoretical lens to explore festivals as a prime context for liminal transformative experiences in the hospitality context. Design/methodology/approach A constructivist qualitative research design was used through 31 in-depth inte...

It was found that pragmatic attributes such as efficient assistance and problems with interpretation were important elements in user reports of satisfactory and frustrating episodes of chatbot use that they found particularly satisfactory or frustrating.

A systematic investigation into the effects of interrupting the VR experience through questionnaires using physiological data as a continuous and objective measure of presence indicates a reduced BIP for the employed inVRQ without affecting the self-reported player experience.

Combinatorial optimization as a flexible and powerful tool for computational generation and adaptation of GUIs is surveyed and the position of this application area within optimization and human–computer interaction research is discussed and challenges for future work are outlined.

Comparison of user experiences of one VR and two AR versions of an immersive gallery experience ‘Virtual Veronese’, measuring multiple aspects of user experience, including enjoyment, presence, cognitive, emotional and behavioural engagement, at the National Gallery in London, UK showed that enjoyment was high on all devices, with the Oculus Quest (VR) receiving higher mean scores than both AR devices, Magic Leap and Mira Prism.

Information provision experiments allow researchers to test economic theories and answer policy-relevant questions by varying the information set available to respondents. We survey the emerging literature using information provision experiments in economics and discuss applications in macroeconomics, finance, political economy, public economics, labor economics, and health economics. We also discuss design considerations and provide best-practice recommendations on how to (i) measure beliefs; (ii) design the information intervention; (iii) measure belief updating; (iv) deal with potential con...

Contributors 1: Samuel M. Scheiner: Theories, Hypotheses, and Statistics 2: Robert J. Steidl and Len Thomas: Power Analysis and Experimental Design 3: Aaron M. Ellison: Exploratory Data Analysis and Graphic Display 4: Catherine Potvin: ANOVA: Experimental Layout and Analysis 5: Deborah E. Goldberg and Samuel M. Scheiner: ANOVA and ANCOVA: Field Competition Experiments 6: Samuel M. Scheiner: MANOVA: Multiple Response Variables and Multispecies Interactions 7: Peter S. Petraitis et al: ANCOVA: Nonparametric and Randomization Approaches 8: Carl N. von Ende: Repeated-measures Analysis: Growth and ...

This study aims to test some previously proposed MTE (memorable tourist experience) scales by using UGC (user-generated content) posted in social media sites, through script theory and thematic analysis. In addition, MTEs and OTEs (ordinary tourist experiences) are compared to identify any significant differences between their dimensions. The results suggest that some dimensions of the MTE scale (hedonism, novelty, meaningfulness, involvement, knowledge and serendipity) are significantly more frequently reported in MTEs than in OTEs, but are not exclusive to MTEs. Despite this, the MTE scale d...

It is found that when users have a specific intention for how they want to use YouTube they prefer interfaces that support greater agency, and implications for how designers can help users reclaim a sense of agency over their media use are discussed.

A conceptual framework is offered, alongside guidance in applying the ‘design for experience’ approach, which aims to facilitate value propositions that support public service users to co-create value in their lifeworlds.

The study found that the user experience, in terms of social presence, immersion and credibility perception, can significantly predict users’ intention to continue using short video apps to obtain health information.

The development of VR technology has enabled the creation of the most comprehensive UXs, thus enhancing skill development, enabling remote access to training and, ultimately, improving patient safety.

The computational methods and tools that have become indispensable for planning and analyzing CRISPR experiments are reviewed and actively maintained so that researchers across disciplines can rely on a stable set of excellent computational resources forCRISPR–Cas experiments.

Tourists' emotions have a pivotal role in tourists' cognitive evaluations and behavioral responses. Fleeting but powerful, emotions are associated with individuals' biological makeup, shaped by their experiences and related to personal mental associations. The aim of this contribution is twofold: to broaden the depth and breadth of the emotion discourse in tourism and to offer principles for emotion-oriented tourism design. Mainstream emotion literature and tourism emotion contributions are critically analyzed and discussed. This study proposes novel paths to investigate emotions in our schola...

To address tourism's challenges, a transformation of consciousness of all stakeholders is necessary. This article examines how outer journeys can transformation our inner consciousness, leading to awakening or enlightenment. When awakened, the individual not only experiences inner peace and freedom, a sense of flow, transcendence of the small self, connection with something greater, but also a desire to contribute to the greater good. It suggests that tourism scenarios involving deep human connectivity, deep environmental connectivity, self-inquiry and engaged contribution or some combination ...

The design and optimization of biological systems is an inherently complex undertaking that requires careful balancing of myriad synergistic and antagonistic variables. However, despite this complexity, much synthetic biology research is predicated on One Factor at A Time (OFAT) experimentation; the genetic and environmental variables affecting the activity of a system of interest are sequentially altered while all other variables are held constant. Beyond being time and resource intensive, OFAT experimentation crucially ignores the effect of interactions between factors. Given the ubiquity of...

This five-day workshop, led by Donald Green from Columbia University, provides a comprehensive guide to designing, executing, and interpreting field experiments across various social science fields. Participants will receive a broad-based introduction to causal inference and experimental designs that address complications such as noncompliance or attrition, while gaining hands-on experience with statistical software and learning best practices for conducting scientifically rigorous and ethically sound research.

The new version of Expasy provides an up-to-date and accurate description of high-quality resources based on a standardised ontology, allowing to connect functionally-related resources.

AUIT allows creators to flexibly combine policies that address common objectives in XR applications, such as element reachability, visibility, and consistency, and simplifies the design process and enables creative exploration of adaptations.

This study uncovers the significant antecedents of SNS stickiness from a technology affordance lens and reveals the moderating effect of user experience on the relationship between three technology affordances and satisfaction.

This study aims to explore the role of avatars in mediating users with the metaverse environment. This study applies the construal level theory and source attractiveness model to understand the impact of avatar realism on the interaction between users and their avatars. Computer-simulated experiences were tested in realistic and abstract avatar conditions using serial mediation analysis. It was found that the user-avatar relationship and the intention to use the avatar were both increased by avatar realism. Specifically, psychological distance and social presence serially mediated these effect...

The results show that 120fps is an important threshold for VR, and after 120fps, users tend to feel lower SS symptoms without a significant negative effect on their experience, and higher frame rates (e.g., 120 and 180fps) can ensure better user performance than lower rates.

This paper constructs a reasonable evaluation index system, adopts the comprehensive evaluation method to analyze user experience before and after the outbreak of COVID-19, and finds out the change of users’ concerns regarding the online education platform.

The outcomes of this study help researchers and designers to apply DOEs that consider the extent of nonlinearity and interaction of factors in the investigated process in order to select the most successful and the most efficient designs for the specific process characterization.

Human-centered artificial intelligence (HCAI) seeks to shift the focus in AI development from technology to people. However, it is not clear whether existing HCAI principles and practices adequately accomplish this goal. To explore whether HCAI is sufficiently focused on people, we conducted a qualitative survey of AI developers (N = 75) and users (N = 130) and performed a thematic content analysis on their responses to gain insight into their differing priorities and experiences. Through this, we were able to compare HCAI in principle (guidelines and frameworks) and practice (developer priori...

Investigating the types of everyday social support that can be received from artificial agents in everyday contexts found that Replika provides some level of companionship that can help curtail loneliness, provide a “safe space” in which users can discuss any topic without the fear of judgment or retaliation, and provide helpful information/advice when normal sources of informational support are not available.

The survey found that the widespread changes to services caused unintended negative consequences including essential clinical care being missed, confusion over advice, and distress and emotional trauma for women.