Mohammad AlsuraihiBSc, MSc, Ph.D
Current place of employment:
University of Taiba Dr. Mohammad Alsuraihi pursued a postgraduate career first in the University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (where an MSc in Computer Science was obtained), and later in the University of Bradford, Bradford, UK (where a PhD in Software Engineering was obtained). On completion of his PhD, Dr. Alsuraihi joined the University of Taiba in Saudi Arabia as an assistant professor.
Publications by Mohammad Alsuraihi (bibliography)
» 2008 «
Alsuraihi, Mohammad and Rigas, Dimitris (2008): Speech Displaces the Graphical Crowd. In Journal of Computers, 3 (6) pp. 47-58
“Developers of visual Interface Design Environments (IDEs), like Microsoft Visual Studio and Java
NetBeans, are competing in producing pretty crowded graphical interfaces in order to facilitate
completion of interface-design tasks. Previous studies have shown that such interfaces cause the
user to experience information overload as well as they create a fertile environment for usability
problems. In this paper, we empirically investigate speech as an input and output means for solving
usability problems with GUI interaction metaphors and enhancing usability of visual IDEs. The
empirical investigation aimed at measuring usability of two experimental ID toolkits: typical
visual-only (TVOID) and multimodal (MMID) in terms of efficiency, effectiveness and satisfaction.
Usability of these two environments was tested twice, over two experimental phases, by four
independent groups of users. The first experimental phase was for measuring usability by novel
users in order to explore how learnable each of the two experimental toolkits would be. The second
phase aimed at measuring usability by well-trained users to study experienced user performance
when using a speech recognition ID.”
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» 2007 «
Alsuraihi, Mohammad and Rigas, Dimitris (2007): How Effective is it to Design by Voice?. In: Proceedings of the HCI07 Conference on People and Computers XXI 2007. p. 39. Available online
“Previous studies on usability of crowded graphical interfaces that are full of widgets like menus, buttons, palette-tools etc, have shown evidence that they create a fertile environment for information overload and usability problems. In this paper, we investigate the use of multimodal interaction metaphors (visual, vocal and aural) for improving effectiveness of learning functions and completing tasks in one of the most graphically crowded user-interfaces, the user-interface of IDEs (or Interface Design Environments). This investigation was done empirically on two experimental interface design toolkits (TVOID and MMID) which were built especially for the study. Assessment of the visual and multimodal interaction metaphors was carried out by two independent groups of users (A and B) of which each consisted of 15 users. Results showed that the use of speech for input and output along with limited use of the mouse was more effective than interacting visually only using the typical common graphical metaphors: pull-down menus, toolbar, toolbox, properties-table and status-bar.”
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Alsuraihi, Mohammad and Rigas, Dimitris (2007): Efficiency of Speech Recognition for Using Interface Design Environments by Novel Designers. In: Proceedings of the 7th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Informatics and Communications 2007, Athens, Greece. pp. 154-159. Available online
“Previous studies on usability of graphical design-widgets, like menus and buttons, proposed the use of speech and non-speech (earcons and auditory icons) for solving their usability problems. In this paper we investigate speech as an input metaphor to enhance learnability, or the ability to use a system with no prior knowledge, in order to design interfaces using a multimodal interface design toolkit called MMID. Using this toolkit as an experimental platform, the paper presents an empirical multi-group study that compares efficiency of visual-only and multimodal interaction metaphors when used by novel users.”
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Alsuraihi, Mohammad and Rigas, Dimitris I. (2007): Efficiency of Experienced Use of Multimodal Interaction Metaphors for Interface Design. In: Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2007 2007, Lisbon, Portugal. .
“This paper introduces an empirical multi-group study for investigating the experienced use of visual and multimodal interaction metaphors for designing interfaces. The study aimed at comparing the efficiency of multimodal interaction using voice-instruction and speech along with limited use of the mouse and the keyboard against the efficiency of using visual-only interaction metaphors for using interface-design environments. Efficiency of these interaction metaphors was compared in regard to task accomplishment time and frequency of error-occurrence. In order to carry out this comparative investigation, three experimental interface design toolkits (TVOID, OFVOID, and MMID) were built from scratch. TVOID and OFVOID interacted with the user visually only using typical and time-saving interaction metaphors. The third environment MMID added another modality through vocal and aural interaction. Then, these environments were tested independently by three groups of experienced users. Each groups consisted of 40 users. The results showed that the use of vocal commands and speech with limited use of the mouse for completing tasks was more efficient in terms of shortening task accomplishment time and reducing the number of errors than the use of the typical and time-saving visual-only interaction metaphors: graphical menus, toolbar, toolbox, properties-table, hot-keys, scrollable-tags, instant-menus, textual-help, and textual messages.”
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Rigas, Dimitris and Alsuraihi, Mohammad (2007): A Toolkit for Multimodal Interface Design: An Empirical Investigation. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4552 pp. 196-205
“This paper introduces a comparative multi-group study carried out to investigate the use of multimodal interaction metaphors (visual, oral, and aural) for improving learnability (or usability from first time use) of interface-design environments. An initial survey was used for taking views about the effectiveness and satisfaction of employing speech and speech-recognition for solving some of the common usability problems. Then, the investigation was done empirically by testing the usability parameters: efficiency, effectiveness, and satisfaction of three design-toolkits (TVOID, OFVOID, and MMID) built especially for the study. TVOID and OFVOID interacted with the user visually only using typical and time-saving interaction metaphors. The third environment MMID added another modality through vocal and aural interaction. The results showed that the use of vocal commands and the mouse concurrently for completing tasks from first time use was more efficient and more effective than the use of visual-only interaction metaphors.”
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