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Design and Implementation of a Toolkit for Usability Testing of Mobile Apps (2012)
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Ma, Xiaoxiao Yan, Bo Chen, Guanling Zhang, Chunhui Huang, Ke Ury, Jill Wang, Linzhang Ma, X. Yan, B. Chen, G. Zhang, C. Huang, K. Ury, J. |
| Abstract | Abstract The usability of mobile applications is critical for their adoption because of the relatively small screen and awkward (sometimes virtual) keyboard, despite the recent advances of smartphones. Traditional laboratory-based usability testing is often tedious, expensive, and does not reflect real use cases. In this paper, we propose a toolkit that embeds into mobile applications the ability to automat-ically collect user interface (UI) events as the user interacts with the applications. The events are fine-grained and use-ful for quantified usability analysis. We have implemented the toolkit on Android devices and we evaluated the toolkit with a real deployed Android application by comparing event analysis (state-machine based) with traditional labora-tory testing (expert based). The results show that our toolkit is effective at capturing detailed UI events for accurate usability analysis. |
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| Journal | Mobile Networks and Applications |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2012-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
