Evaluating the usability of a cancer registry system using Cognitive Walkthrough, and assessing user agreement with its problems.

ABSTRACT:

Objective/aim

Good design of cancer registry systems makes them easy to use, while poor design of their user interfaces leads to user dissatisfaction and resistance. The objective of this study was to evaluate the usability of a cancer registry system using Cognitive Walkthrough (CW) and to assess users' agreement with its usability problems.

Methods

CW was used to evaluate the registry system. We developed a checklist to help evaluators speed up the evaluation process, a problems form to collect the usability issues identified by the evaluators, and a problems severity form to determine the severity of problems by the evaluators. The problems were classified into two categories according to the CW questions and the system tasks. The agreement of the users with the system pr

SUBMITTER: Bagheri F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9887869 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature