Interfaz gráfica de usuario para una herramienta de apoyo a laboratorios de física y química de UNICATÓLICA sobre Raspberry Pi basada en criterios de usabilidad

Abstract

Nowadays, technology has become a very important input in teaching, which has allowed the quality of education to improve, for that reason it is so important that universities and colleges have good technological tools for the development of their lessons. Based on the above and taking into account that the Lumen Gentium Catholic University Foundation is in the process of continuous improvement, an update of the tools for the development of laboratory activities was proposed. For this reason, UNICATÓLICA established the development of a Didactic Tool for the Basic Sciences Laboratory. The development of said tool implied the implementation of a software that allows the interaction of the human with the system, said software is constituted of two parts, the communication layer, which allows that by means of orders sent by the graphical interface it can through sensors, capture physical and chemical magnitudes and a graphical user interface. The present work developed the graphical user interface that together with the communication layer were successfully implemented in a mini computer called Raspberry Pi. Once the development was completed, the respective usability tests were carried out using Jakob Nielsen's heuristic evaluation methodology and thanks to it, it was concluded that the developed interface is friendly and aesthetically pleasing to students.