Developing a Dynamic Usability Evaluation Framework using an Aspect-Oriented Approach

Slava Shekh, Sue Tyerman

2009

Abstract

Recent work in usability evaluation has focused on automatically capturing and analysing user interface events. However, automated techniques typically require modification of the underlying software, preventing non-programmers from using these techniques. In addition, capturing events requires each event source to be modified and since these sources may be spread throughout the system, maintaining the event capture functionality can become a very arduous task. Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a programming paradigm that separates the concerns or behaviours of a system into discrete aspects, allowing all event capture to be contained within a single aspect. Consequently, the use of AOP for usability evaluation is currently an area of research interest, but there is a lack of a general framework. This paper describes the development of an AOP-based usability evaluation framework that can be dynamically configured to capture specific events. The configuration is controlled through a frontend, which adds to the ease of use, and helps support non-programmers in conducting automatic usability evaluation.

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Shekh S. and Tyerman S. (2009). Developing a Dynamic Usability Evaluation Framework using an Aspect-Oriented Approach . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-811-98-2, pages 203-214. DOI: 10.5220/0001860202030214


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@conference{enase09,
author={Slava Shekh and Sue Tyerman},
title={Developing a Dynamic Usability Evaluation Framework using an Aspect-Oriented Approach},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2009},
pages={203-214},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001860202030214},
isbn={978-989-811-98-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - Developing a Dynamic Usability Evaluation Framework using an Aspect-Oriented Approach
SN - 978-989-811-98-2
AU - Shekh S.
AU - Tyerman S.
PY - 2009
SP - 203
EP - 214
DO - 10.5220/0001860202030214