Evaluation of interactive WebSIR using software usability measurement inventory (SUMI)

The classical studies of information retrieval such as precision, recall, accuracy and F-measure, detached the human out from the model of evaluation. As this study have proposed a model that would engage with the user, the assessment must also take into account the experiences that exist between users and systems. In this paper, the Software Usability Measurement Inventory (SUMI) is used to evaluate a semantic image retrieval application namely as WebSIR. WebSIR is a web-based application that developed using Java programming language, Liferay and Jena. A collection of questions derived from the SUMI instrument were used. The results demonstrated that 85% evaluation test of respondents are satisfied and they considered this application is easy to be used