Abstract

The main goal of this study is to discuss mobile applications usability principles, for the last two decades an increasing interest can be observed for using smart phone and its variety applications, nowadays, most of people all over the world using mobile technology and mobile applications become embedded in different aspect of life, the s useful of mobile applications contributed to different range of users to perform a lot of tasks and duties with mobile anytime and everywhere, many facts have an influence in increasing of usage of mobile phone devices, the usability is one of this facts for the usability has been increasingly recognized as a major role of successful of the mobile applications. This study aims to investigate this important research area, it will focus on the mobile usability attributes and criteria and compare between mobile and desktop applications in term of usability and then discuss how usability has been measured and measurement criteria. The article will investigate mobile usability criteria and Human Computer Interaction theories (HCI) and ISO standards to satisfy the end users need and discuss the challenges that face mobile usability.

Keywords:

Computer interface, mobile applications, software measurement, usability measures,

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