To develope more competitive products, lots of attentions are paid to the study of user participation in the process of product design. In this circumstance, the user participation at a usability testing phase is relatively active. However, the usability testing in the controlled laboratory has some drawbacks. For stance, It needs a lot of money, efforts, and time. Most of all, it is difficult to collect a vast range of data and gain a fast feedback. The most important thing in the usability testing is collecting a vast range of usability testing data, and giving a fast and high quality feedback into design process.
Recently, to overcome these difficulties mentioned above, international usability testing has been applied. "International inspection method" which makes world wide users inspect product's interface and "WWW(world wide web) method" which examines through internet by sending a statement of prototype and so forth. Especially, usability testing method through Internet is considered most effective one. Because it has a lot of merits such as easiness of collecting remote user, simplicity of collecting data, cost effectiveness and so on. With these merits, this study takes advantage of using a WWW to carry out usability test and to collect remote usability data. And a website was developed for posting computer simulated product so that the remote users can test its usability through internet.
The usability testing homepage has been developed to accomplish a effective collecting data of remote users' ones. Usability testing homepage comprises of 3 different modules: module for identifying users' demographic characteristics and their product using preferences, module for usability testing, and module for data storage and analysis. As a result. Using this usability testing home page, we are able to get a vast range and high quality usability testing data
