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From Bicycle to Bites: Indoor vs. Outdoor User Testing Methodologies of Georeferenced Mobile Apps

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The paper is aimed to explore and discuss the way we evaluate, asses and test with users mobile applications—which main interaction modality is GPS and geo-referenced data—both in-lab and en plein air. The research intends to asses user experience evaluating methodologies to have better insight to understand how to design and plan spatial interactions among people, mobile devices, the physical environment and the digital space of geo-located information. The study adopts user test task-based methodologies coming from the user-centered design qualitative methods comparing infield research and usability lab conditions. The paper proposes experimental evidences coming from the indoor experiences—where geo-localization is simulated, but other research parameters are in control—with outdoor situation—where geo-localization is the real driver of interactions, but many variables interferes with some parameters and measurement observation—to understand experimental variables and bias to prevent them in the design process, using the field of cycling as a case study.

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Acknowledgments

Although the paper is a result of the joint work of all authors, Letizia Bollini is in particular author of parts 1, 2 and 5 and Giulia Cicchinè is author parts 3 and 4.

We acknowledge Professor Natale Stucchi, University of Milano-Bicocca for is precious advice and supervision on data analysis of experimental results.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza dell’Ateneo Nuovo 1, 20126, Milan, Italy

    Letizia Bollini & Giulia Cicchinè

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  1. University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  2. University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  3. Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

    Sanjay Misra

  4. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Ana Maria A.C. Rocha

  5. Polytechnic University, Bari, Italy

    Carmelo M. Torre

  6. Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

    David Taniar

  7. Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Bernady O. Apduhan

  8. Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

    Elena Stankova

  9. Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

    Shangguang Wang

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Bollini, L., Cicchinè, G. (2016). From Bicycle to Bites: Indoor vs. Outdoor User Testing Methodologies of Georeferenced Mobile Apps. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2016. ICCSA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9788. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42111-7_29

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