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Ethiopian Public Universities’ Web Site Usability

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Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa (ICT4DA 2017)

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Usability is the vital aspect of any system for having quality products. There are various models for testing usability. The objective of the study is to assess the applicability of the USE (Usefulness (Usability), Satisfaction, Ease of use, and Ease of learning) model for Ethiopian Universities’ web site context. The USE model is evaluated using PLS-SEM method. The study uses three university web sites to test the model. The result found is encouraging. It has found that usability is affected by 53.3% jointly by the considered usability factors. Independently, usability is influenced by user satisfaction, ease of use, and ease of learning by 53.1%, 20.1%, and 6.1% respectively. Based on the result found, user satisfaction is the major determinant for web site usability and the “USE” model is convenient to study web site usability of Ethiopian universities.

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    Attribute, factor, construct, latent variable, usability aspect, usability dimension refer the same concept.

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Acknowledgement

The first thank goes to our God. Next, we would like to express our gratitude to the School of Research and Post graduate Office of Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Bahir Dar University, for funding this research. The helpful comments of our friends contribute to have best quality questionnaire; specially, we thank Dr. Abate Shiferaw and Mr. Mekonnen Wagaw.

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  1. Faculty of Computing, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

    Worku Kelemework & Abinew Ali

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  1. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa

    Fisseha Mekuria

  2. Information Technology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Ethiopia Enideg Nigussie

  3. Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

    Waltenegus Dargie

  4. Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

    Mutafugwa Edward

  5. Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

    Tesfa Tegegne

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Kelemework, W., Ali, A. (2018). Ethiopian Public Universities’ Web Site Usability. In: Mekuria, F., Nigussie, E., Dargie, W., Edward, M., Tegegne, T. (eds) Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa. ICT4DA 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 244. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95153-9_15

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