An Integrated Measurement Model for Evaluating Usability Attributes

An Integrated Measurement Model for Evaluating Usability Attributes

In order to develop an easy to use, effective and efficient software system that satisfies the stakeholder needs, usability attributes should be addressed and measured appropriately during all development stages. However, measuring usability is widely recognized as the most challenging task for the system development team. Such challenge can be attributed to the absence of an existing comprehensive usability model that covers all the fuzzy usability attributes. This paper aims to elicit and analyze usability attributes from previously existing usability models for developing an integrated usability model from different practitioners’…

The Analytic Hierarchy Process

AHP is one of the main mathematical models currently available to support the decision theory. When looking into how organizations decide over which projects to execute, we notice a constant desire to have clear, objective, and mathematical criteria (Haas & Meixner, 2005). However, decision making is, in its totality, a cognitive and mental process derived from the most possible adequate selection based on tangible and intangible criteria (Saaty, 2009), which are arbitrarily chosen by those who make the decisions. This paper also discusses the importance and some possible criteria for…