A New Perspective on First Read Rate of 2D Barcodes in Mobile Applications

Author

Tan, Keng T. ; Chai, Douglas

fYear

2010

fDate

12-16 April 2010

Firstpage

192

Lastpage

194

Abstract

The first read rate (FRR) has been one of the traditional benchmark metric for measuring the performance of barcode systems. In recent studies, it has been noted that the FRR alone is not a complete measure of user experience, especially of barcodes in mobile applications. In this paper, we present a further three factors that would influence the user experience of mobile 2D barcodes. Our investigation is based on a quantitative survey of a controlled study participated by 250 lay users of mobile phones, through reading QRCode and Data Matrix barcodes with a variety of camera mobile phones. Observations from our study correlate well with findings from other works.

Keywords

bar codes; matrix algebra; mobile handsets; 2D barcodes; FRR; QRCode; barcode system performance; data matrix barcodes; first read rate; mobile applications; mobile phones; quantitative survey; traditional benchmark metric; Decoding; Digital cameras; Digital images; Displays; Education; Educational technology; Hardware; Lenses; Mobile handsets; Size measurement; Barcode; user experience; user interface education;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE), 2010 6th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kaohsiung

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3992-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6428-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WMUTE.2010.45

Filename

5476561