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Widgets Dedicated to User Interface Evaluation

2014; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 30; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/10447318.2013.873280

1532-7590

Selem Charfi, A. Trabelsi, Houcine Ezzedine, Christophe Kolski,

Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders

AbstractIn 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. Additional informationNotes on contributorsSelem CharfiSelem Charfi obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Valenciennes (France) in 2013. His research concerns human–computer interaction (HCI), agent-based architecture models of interactive systems, software engineering, and HCI evaluation, with application to the supervision of transport systems. He is the coauthor of several papers in international conferences. He is involved in several research networks.Abdelwaheb TrabelsiAbdelwaheb Trabelsi obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Valenciennes (France) in 2006. He is an assistant professor in Computer Science at the University of Sfax (Tunisia). A member of the LOGIC laboratory, he is involved in several research networks and projects. He specializes in HCI and SE for interactive systems.Houcine EzzedineHoucine Ezzedine obtained his Ph.D. in 1985. He is professor of Industrial Computer Science at the University of Valenciennes (France) and member of the “Human-Computer Interaction and Automated Reasoning” research group in the LAMIH. He is involved in several research networks, projects, and associations. He specializes in human–computer interaction and software engineering for interactive systems.Christophe KolskiChristophe Kolski obtained his Ph.D. in 1989. He specializes in human–computer interaction, software engineering for interactive system design and evaluation, adaptive User Interface, tangible and distributed interaction. He is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Valenciennes (France), and a member of the LAMIH laboratory.