GUI information-based interaction logging and visualization for asynchronous usability testing

Jong Wook Jeong, Neung Hoe Kim, Hoh Peter In

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    Abstract

    Asynchronous usability testing is efficient and promising usability testing methodology. However, evaluators are required to dedicate a considerable amount of effort for identifying usability problems in asynchronous testing. Evaluators cannot observe user interactions directly; only the collected data is available to them for identifying the usability problems. To reduce the amount of effort required, this paper presents a framework and tool for interaction visualization. This framework tracing user interactions based on meaningful GUI changes. The collected interaction log is visualized in a way that is similar to the visualization of traversed path used in web domains. Using our approach, the evaluator shall be able to understand user behavior more easily. In addition, we designed a black-box-based interaction logging for minimizing the implementation costs. Our tool especially helpful when testing has a large number of interaction data to analyze. To evaluate the proposed framework and tool, user interaction data were collected, and the results were evaluated by mobile application experts. The evaluation results demonstrate that the user interaction data traced by the proposed framework accurately reflect the user interactions and that the visualization results are valid.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number113289
    JournalExpert Systems With Applications
    Volume151
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2020 Aug 1

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    This research was supported by the MSIP ( Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning ), Korea, under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program ( IITP-2016-R0992-16-1011 ) supervised by the IITP(Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion).

    Publisher Copyright:
    © 2020

    Keywords

    • Asynchronous remote usability testing
    • Mobile application
    • Remote usability testing
    • Usability testing

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Engineering
    • Computer Science Applications
    • Artificial Intelligence

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