Widgets Dedicated to User Interface Evaluation

Selem Charfi (1) , Abdelwaheb Trabelsi (2) , Houcine Ezzedine (1) , Christophe Kolski (1)

1 LAMIH - Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Mécanique et d'Informatique industrielles et Humaines - UMR 8201
2 Université de Sfax - University of Sfax

In this article, evaluation-based widgets are proposed as a contribution to assist evaluators for early evaluation of user interfaces. This contribution imbricates the ergonomic quality evaluation process into widgets used for user-interface graphical composition. In other words, these widgets evaluate themselves according to a defined set of ergonomic guidelines. The proposed widgets indicate the possible interface design ergonomic inconsistencies as a notification to the designer. The guidelines set can be modified through an interface dedicated to guidelines definition into XML files. The proposed widgets are intended for the evaluation of different kind of user interfaces: WIMP, web, and mobile. An experimental evaluation, involving these evaluation-based widgets, is proposed to illustrate and to validate the approach.

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Selem Charfi, Abdelwaheb Trabelsi, Houcine Ezzedine, Christophe Kolski. Widgets Dedicated to User Interface Evaluation. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 2014, 30 (5), pp.408-421. ⟨10.1080/10447318.2013.873280⟩. ⟨hal-03280650⟩