Evaluating C2C e-commerce Website usability in Malaysia from users ' perspective: A case study

The main challenges of e-com merce are to attract customers and maintain a good relationship with existing customer as user only interact with electronic device. Therefore designing a good and usable website is the most crucial part to succeed in this highly competitive environ ment. The objective...

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Main Authors: Md Zainudin, Noorfadzilah, Wan Ahmad, Wan Fatimah, Goh , Kim Nee
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Language:English
Published: 2010
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description The main challenges of e-com merce are to attract customers and maintain a good relationship with existing customer as user only interact with electronic device. Therefore designing a good and usable website is the most crucial part to succeed in this highly competitive environ ment. The objectives of this study are to evaluate C2C e-com merce website usability and to study proble ms faced by potential customer in process of purchasing online. In this study, a number of university students were asked to evaluate the usability of two Malaysian C2C websites. Two local websites were chosen, one is a pro minent website and the other one is randomly picked from the internet. A framework for evaluating e-com merce usability was implemented in this study. The website is rated based on criteria of system quality, information quality, service quality and attractiveness. Users need to complete a num ber of tasks on the websites and think- aloud was encouraged during the evaluation process. Results show a num ber of usability issues encountered by users while completing the task given. From these findings, ecom merce developers may look at the issues seriously before designing their e-com m erce website.
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spelling oai:scholars.utp.edu.my:29032017-01-19T08:24:02Z http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/2903/ Evaluating C2C e-commerce Website usability in Malaysia from users ' perspective: A case study Md Zainudin, Noorfadzilah Wan Ahmad, Wan Fatimah Goh , Kim Nee T Technology (General) The main challenges of e-com merce are to attract customers and maintain a good relationship with existing customer as user only interact with electronic device. Therefore designing a good and usable website is the most crucial part to succeed in this highly competitive environ ment. The objectives of this study are to evaluate C2C e-com merce website usability and to study proble ms faced by potential customer in process of purchasing online. In this study, a number of university students were asked to evaluate the usability of two Malaysian C2C websites. Two local websites were chosen, one is a pro minent website and the other one is randomly picked from the internet. A framework for evaluating e-com merce usability was implemented in this study. The website is rated based on criteria of system quality, information quality, service quality and attractiveness. Users need to complete a num ber of tasks on the websites and think- aloud was encouraged during the evaluation process. Results show a num ber of usability issues encountered by users while completing the task given. From these findings, ecom merce developers may look at the issues seriously before designing their e-com m erce website. 2010-06-15 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/2903/1/stamp.jsp%3Ftp%3D%26arnumber%3D5561400%26tag%3D1 Md Zainudin, Noorfadzilah and Wan Ahmad, Wan Fatimah and Goh , Kim Nee (2010) Evaluating C2C e-commerce Website usability in Malaysia from users ' perspective: A case study. In: International Symposium on Information Technology 2010, ITSim, June 2010, Kuala Lumpur. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/
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Wan Ahmad, Wan Fatimah
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Evaluating C2C e-commerce Website usability in Malaysia from users ' perspective: A case study
title Evaluating C2C e-commerce Website usability in Malaysia from users ' perspective: A case study
title_full Evaluating C2C e-commerce Website usability in Malaysia from users ' perspective: A case study
title_fullStr Evaluating C2C e-commerce Website usability in Malaysia from users ' perspective: A case study
title_full_unstemmed Evaluating C2C e-commerce Website usability in Malaysia from users ' perspective: A case study
title_short Evaluating C2C e-commerce Website usability in Malaysia from users ' perspective: A case study
title_sort evaluating c2c e-commerce website usability in malaysia from users ' perspective: a case study
topic T Technology (General)
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