Rethinking Usability Heuristics for Modern Biomedical Interfaces

High usability is the ultimate goal in user interface development. In order to test this, user studies are often carried out at great expense. An alternative to this is offered by more favorable implementation guidelines and heuristic evaluation that get by with a smaller number of tests. Tools in the area of biomedical research face major challenges here, as they are extremely crucial, the users are highly demanding, and the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) requires researchers to take a powerful leap of faith. Since general heuristics are often insufficient for this domain, we introduce new Biomedical Research AI Heuristics and evaluate them among others using a prototype user interface in the domain of blood cell analysis. The comparative study shows our specialized approach competes very well with Nielsen's well-established general heuristics and a recent publication of rules for AI development. Our set finds the most relevant usability issues and can support the review process for the growing number of biomedical systems that will use artificial intelligence technologies in the future.     «

High usability is the ultimate goal in user interface development. In order to test this, user studies are often carried out at great expense. An alternative to this is offered by more favorable implementation guidelines and heuristic evaluation that get by with a smaller number of tests. Tools in the area of biomedical research face major challenges here, as they are extremely crucial, the users are highly demanding, and the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) requires researchers to take a...     »