Authors:
Slava Shekh
and
Sue Tyerman
Affiliation:
University of South Australia, Australia
Keyword(s):
Aspect-oriented programming, usability evaluation, human-computer interaction
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Application Integration Technologies
;
Applications
;
Applications and Software Development
;
Aspect-Oriented Software Development
;
Aspects
;
Meta-Programming
;
Model-Driven Software Development
;
Paradigm Trends
;
Service-Oriented Software Engineering and Management
;
Software and Systems Development Methodologies
;
Software Engineering
;
Software Process Improvement
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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