• DocumentCode
    1444373
  • Title

    Automatic support for usability evaluation

  • Author

    Lecerof, Andreas ; Paternò, Fabio

  • Author_Institution
    Ist. CNUCE, CNR, Pisa, Italy
  • Volume
    24
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    10/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    863
  • Lastpage
    888
  • Abstract
    The main goal of the work is to propose a method to evaluate user interfaces using task models and logs generated from a user test of an application. The method can be incorporated into an automatic tool which gives the designer information useful to evaluate and improve the user interface. These results include an analysis of the tasks which have been accomplished, those which failed and those never tried, user errors and their type, time related information, task patterns among the accomplished tasks, and the available tasks from the current state of the user session. This information is also useful to an evaluator checking whether the specified usability goals have been accomplished
  • Keywords
    automatic programming; human factors; interactive systems; program testing; software performance evaluation; task analysis; user interfaces; automatic support; automatic tool; task models; task patterns; time related information; usability evaluation; usability goals; user errors; user interface; user interface evaluation; user session; user test; Application software; Design engineering; Failure analysis; Human computer interaction; Information analysis; Performance evaluation; Process design; Testing; Usability; User interfaces;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0098-5589
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/32.729686
  • Filename
    729686