Assessing Usability Attributes and Metrics: Causes and Causalities in SCADA Systems for the Forestry Industry




Haikonen, Eino; Majanoja, Anne-Maarit

Vasilache, Simona; Kočí, Radek

International Conference on Software Engineering Advances

2024

International Conference on Software Engineering Advances

ICSEA 2024: The Nineteenth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances

9

13

18

978-1-68558-194-7

2308-4235

https://www.thinkmind.org/library/ICSEA/ICSEA_2024/icsea_2024_1_50_10037.html

https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/477328347



As operations and systems become more complex, usability and user experience become increasingly critical. Organizations invest significant resources to enhance usability, yet identifying context-dependent root causes remains challenging. This paper describes a usability study conducted by a Finnish forestry company on a Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) control system. The study utilized academic research to identify key usability attributes and metrics, which formed the basis of a comprehensive usability questionnaire. Analysis of survey responses underscores the importance of situational analysis and identifying cumulative and causal influences on end-user perceptions of usability.


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