Leading web usability evaluations to WAUTER

Sandrine Balbo; Steve Goschnick; Derek Tong; Cécile Paris

Leading web usability evaluations to WAUTER

Sandrine Balbo^*, Steve Goschnick, Derek Tong, Cécile Paris

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School of Computing

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Abstract

The WWW is now ubiquitous, and yet its usability is still of major concern. Usability testing methods are able to identify flaws prior to the launch of a site. However, their application typically involves direct observation, requiring availability of participants and evaluators in a synchronised manner. This, in turn, implies tight schedules with little leeway for flexibility. In this paper, we present WAUTER (Web Automatic Usability Testing EnviRonment), a suite of open source tools to assist in web usability evaluation, capturing and comparing intended vs. actual use of a web site. WAUTER harnesses web user visits to do so and is also intended to support remote evaluation. Balbo, Goschnick, Tong, Paris

Original language	English
Title of host publication	AusWeb05: 11th Australasian World Wide Web Conference
Publication status	Published - 2005
Event	11th Australasian World Wide Web Conference, AusWeb 2005 - Gold Coast, QLD, Australia Duration: 2 Jul 2005 → 6 Jul 2005

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Other	11th Australasian World Wide Web Conference, AusWeb 2005
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Gold Coast, QLD
Period	2/07/05 → 6/07/05

Keywords

Automatic analysis
Task models
Usability evaluation
Web log monitoring

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