GUIMETRICS: An Extensible Cloud-based Application for Automatic Computation of GUI Visual Design Measures

Nicolas Burny, Jean Vanderdonckt

2021

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.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Burny N. and Vanderdonckt J. (2021). GUIMETRICS: An Extensible Cloud-based Application for Automatic Computation of GUI Visual Design Measures. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-758-523-4, pages 505-512. DOI: 10.5220/0010571605050512

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft21,
author={Nicolas Burny and Jean Vanderdonckt},
title={GUIMETRICS: An Extensible Cloud-based Application for Automatic Computation of GUI Visual Design Measures},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2021},
pages={505-512},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010571605050512},
isbn={978-989-758-523-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - GUIMETRICS: An Extensible Cloud-based Application for Automatic Computation of GUI Visual Design Measures
SN - 978-989-758-523-4
AU - Burny N.
AU - Vanderdonckt J.
PY - 2021
SP - 505
EP - 512
DO - 10.5220/0010571605050512