An Evaluation of the Digital Photo Management Application - Based on Nielsen’s Heuristics

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Component; Formatting; Style; Styling; Insert

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Contemporary society has evolved into a world of digital technology. As a digital technology invented by humans, the computer has had a profound impact on both work and life. As an interface between humans and computers and a human-centred methodology to guide system development, human-computer interaction plays an important role in the development of both humans and computers. Human-computer interaction research provides a human-centred system design methodology that enables systems to better meet the needs of users in terms of efficacy and emotion and to improve the quality of interaction and user experience between users and computers. Regarding photo management systems, the management of photos has evolved from the physical albums of the past to electronic albums, driven by digital technology. These applications enable the import and organization of digital photos to be a simple task. In the case of the most prevalent and typical digital photo management system: DigiKam, it allows photos to be organized in albums that can be sorted chronologically, by folder layout or by customized favourites. In addition, the DigiKam image editor offers some common tools such as red-eye correction or colour correction. However, when developing these powerful and advanced features, did the software engineers properly and thoroughly consider the user side of the experience? In this regard, we evaluated and analyzed this representative digital photo management system (Digikam) based on Nielsen's top ten usability heuristics, via user interviews and data analysis, and summarized what users were dissatisfied with about the system, ranked the problems in order of severity, and at the end offered sensible suggestions for improving the user experience.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Shengdi Xiao
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/17
TI  - An Evaluation of the Digital Photo Management Application - Based on Nielsen’s Heuristics
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 2nd International Conference on Computer Technology and Media Convergence Design (CTMCD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 284
EP  - 293
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-046-6_34
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-046-6_34
ID  - Xiao2022
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