Authors:
Makram Soui
1
;
Mabrouka Chouchane
2
;
Ines Gasmi
2
and
Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer
3
Affiliations:
1
Higher Institute of Management Gabes, Tunisia
;
2
National School of Computer Studies Manouba, Tunisia
;
3
Rochester Institute of Technology, United States
Keyword(s):
Evaluation, Mobile User Interface, Defects Detection, Usability, Quality.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
;
Graphical Interfaces
;
Interactive Environments
;
Mobile Interfaces
Abstract:
Mobile user interfaces have the potential to improve the interaction between user and system by
automatically tailoring the graphical user interface presentation according to the mobile devices. Recently,
there is a myriad of works that addressed the problem of designing mobile user interfaces to various
contexts of use. But, there are very few proposals about evaluating their quality. Using existing evaluation
methods such as questionnaires and experts’ evaluation are time-consuming and error-prone. In this paper,
we propose an automatic evaluation plugin that allows detecting the defects related to the quality of mobile
user interface. The plugin allows the measurement of several metrics that have been known to constitute the
state of the art quality attributes that are used to predict the quality of interfaces from the usability
perspective. For a given input mobile applications, it generates a list of defects identified using quantitative
evaluation metrics and defects types. We
evaluated our plugin on four open source mobile applications and
the obtained results confirm that our tool can be used to accurately evaluate the quality of interfaces.
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