Authors:
Nicolas Burny
and
Jean Vanderdonckt
Affiliation:
Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Keyword(s):
Graphical User Interface, Software Measurement, User-centered Design, Visual Design.
Abstract:
The visual quality of graphical user interfaces can be estimated by software measurement, which consists of measuring visual design formulas on a dataset of interfaces and interpreting them for improving their overall quality. When performed manually, this process becomes very tedious and error prone, especially for large datasets. When performed with existing software, this process is accelerated, but tied to a particular set of measures with their own interpretation, making them inflexible. To overcome these shortcomings, GUIMETRICS improves this process by automatically collecting screenshots in various platform configurations and resolutions and automatically computing and interpreting measures on-demand. The cloud-based architecture of GUIMETRICS can be extended with external modules for computing any visual measure, even in different programming languages, thus making it more flexible.