KEEPING TRACK OF HOW USERS USE CLIENT DEVICES - An Asynchronous Client-Side Event Logger Model

Vagner Figuerêdo de Santana, Maria Cecilia Calani Baranauskas

2009

Abstract

Web Usage Mining usually considers server logs as a data source for collecting patterns of usage data. This solution presents limitations when the goal is to represent how users interact with specific user interface elements, since this approach may not have detailed information about users’ actions. This paper presents a model for logging client-side events and an implementation of it as a websites evaluation tool. By using the model presented here, miner systems can capture detailed Web usage data, making possible a fine-grained examination of Web pages usage. In addition, the model can help Human-Computer Interaction practitioners to log client-side events of mobile devices, set-top boxes, Web pages, among other artefacts.

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de Santana V. and Calani Baranauskas M. (2009). KEEPING TRACK OF HOW USERS USE CLIENT DEVICES - An Asynchronous Client-Side Event Logger Model . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-88-3, pages 165-168. DOI: 10.5220/0001951001650168


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@conference{iceis09,
author={Vagner Figuerêdo de Santana and Maria Cecilia Calani Baranauskas},
title={KEEPING TRACK OF HOW USERS USE CLIENT DEVICES - An Asynchronous Client-Side Event Logger Model},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,},
year={2009},
pages={165-168},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001951001650168},
isbn={978-989-8111-88-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,
TI - KEEPING TRACK OF HOW USERS USE CLIENT DEVICES - An Asynchronous Client-Side Event Logger Model
SN - 978-989-8111-88-3
AU - de Santana V.
AU - Calani Baranauskas M.
PY - 2009
SP - 165
EP - 168
DO - 10.5220/0001951001650168