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Impact of Web Scale Discovery Services in Academic Libraries
Čejka, Marek ; Souček, Martin (advisor) ; Krčál, Martin (referee)
This diploma thesis discusses a modern concept of information retrieval and search engines for libraries and other academic institutions. The concept named "web scale discovery" comprises of search engines, whose main characteristics lie in simplicity and user friendliness for the end users while maintaining all functional qualities of traditional research databases. Users can search in a wide variety of international research databases, and also in local sources of an institution that are combined within a large central index. The theoretical section presents definitions of web scale discovery, which conceptually set the new method of information retrieval within the field of information and library science. A graphic scheme of the basic functionality of a web scale discovery system is presented. Also discussed are requirements for a modern discovery system, an overview of the current situation in the Czech Republic, and a short characteristic of commercially available discovery systems. The theoretical part concludes with a literature review of selected foreign research, studying user satisfaction with the new solution, the impact on electronic and print resources in libraries, and usability testing. The practical part presents an original research study - usability testing of EBSCO Discovery...
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3D Video Browser
Míchal, Vít ; Štancl, Vít (referee) ; Beran, Vítězslav (advisor)
The aim of this project is to design and create application for the visualization of interconnected video data. Visualization takes place in 3D space and seeks to exploit its advantages (such as depth perception). This document contains survey to different categories of spatial user interfaces. In addition, includes three possible designs of user interfaces and control. Implementation details and made usability tests are also described. Application is implemented in C++ using Open Inventor. The document includes evaluation of the results and made tests.
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Web Portal for Private Family Equipment Rental
Spilka, David ; Španěl, Michal (referee) ; Beran, Vítězslav (advisor)
This thesis deals with design and implementation of web portal called Private family equipment rental. The portal allows users to offer things that they are willing to borrow to other users within groups. Of course, users can also view items offered by other users and can also ask to borrow these things. The system is implemented mainly using PHP Nette framework, jQuery library and Twitter Bootstrap framework.
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A design of a new methodology for usability testing
Veselka, Václav ; Šedivá, Zuzana (advisor) ; Pour, Jan (referee)
This Master's Thesis addresses the topic of usability testing of web-based systems. It reviews existing testing methodologies and recommends a collection of test tools and approaches suitable for usability testing. This thesis introduces a new methodology called Tabie for scoring web system under test. The methodology combines both the ease of use of the user interface (syntactic testing) as as well as its content (semantical testing). This approach is well suited for workflows in marketing agencies where content tweaks and its evaluation is done on an ongoing basis in order to attract more viewers and potential customers. The Tabie methodology provides a quantitative and repeatable process, automating the tweak-evaluate iteration.
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Website Optimization and Evaluation of its Results
Kroužek, Jiří ; Kincl, Tomáš (advisor) ; Novák, Michal (referee)
This thesis deals with conversion rate optimization and evaluation of its results. Thesis introduces and compares conversion rate optimization options -- web analytics, heatmaps, user testing and A/B testing. The practical part consists conversion rate optimization of Faculty of Management website and quantification its results.
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Design of software tool for on-line user testing of web applications
Baxa, Tomáš ; Šedivá, Zuzana (advisor) ; Pražský, Petr (referee)
This thesis deals with the topic of website optimization and user testing, with focus on the user experience. The main objective of this thesis is to design a software tool for on-line testing of the user experience of web applications, which currently does not exist on the Czech Internet. The first part deals with the user experience in theoretical aspect. It contains a comparison of experts' opinions on the issue and deals with the definition of basic concepts. The theoretical part contains an analysis of research techniques used in designing the user experience, which is an important output for the second part. Practical part of thesis includes at the beginning a research of the availability of tools to support analyzed research techniques on Czech Internet and assess their suitability for implementation into the designed tool. Afterwards thesis follow up the main goal - the development of a software tool for usability testing of web applications and websites (incl. the proposed business model and potential areas for future development). This tool should among other things provide benefits in terms of speed up and simplification of usability testing, including reducing the costs of testing.
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Webová prezentácia mesta zameraná na podporu cestovného ruchu
Tínesová, Veronika
This bachelor thesis is focused on current condition of a website of the town Bojnice and provides analysis from the tourism point of view. This work includes usability testing of the website which will show how easy is the website to use and how easy can a potential tourist find information he is searching for. The main aim of this work is to recognize defects of the web presentation and suggest improvements which will make the website easier to use and more tailored to potential visitors to the destination.
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An Analysis of the Impact of UI Conventions on Usability
Toušek, Pavel ; Šedivá, Zuzana (advisor) ; Buchalcevová, Alena (referee)
This thesis focuses on the impact of user interface's compliance with different platform conventions on usability measures and user habits. Theoretical background is provided by usability guidelines and preceding research papers on related topics. Conducted research incorporates techniques of unmoderated remote usability testing for obtaining quantitative data on usability of three different prototypes of the same web application with different graphical user interfaces. Confirmatory data analysis proves differences between prototypes' usability measures, more importantly, it proves utilization of different user habits in each tested visual interface type. These results broaden the knowledge of user habits in relation to the interface environment.
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Usability Testing of Transaction Web
Luňáčková, Lenka ; Kincl, Tomáš (advisor) ; Novák, Michal (referee)
In the last few years there has been a great development of e-shops and their usage. More and more customers are searching for the opportunity to buy products and services through the internet shops. This is related to the fact that more and more emphasis is placed on their applicability. This thesis deals with the quality of the site and the needs of the application and descibes the use of interactive elements. All the mentioned options are applied in this thesis and compared to the specific e-shop. As a part of the user usability testing there is also a suggestion for corrective actions of discovered deficiencies.
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Analýza metod testování použitelnosti webových aplikací
Hejl, Zdeněk ; Gála, Libor (advisor) ; Hejtmánek, Jakub (referee)
Hlavním cílem této práce je analýza metod testování použitelnosti webových aplikací a zařazení těchto metod do jednotlivých fází životního cyklu vývoje webové aplikace. Mimo tento hlavní cíl se práce snaží upozornit na nedostatečný důraz kladený na použitelnost při vývoji těchto aplikací. Největším přínosem této práce je zpřístupnění přehledu metod pro testování použitelnosti českým tvůrcům webových aplikací. Metody jsou prezentovány v takové formě, která umožňuje rychlé zjištění základních informací a porovnávání jednotlivých metod. K usnadnění výběru správné metody jsou v práci obsaženy tři grafické přehledy, které znázorňují zařazení jednotlivých metod do fází životního cyklu vývoje aplikace, příbuznost metod a možnost vzdáleného testování.
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