T-PROX - A User-tracking Proxy for Usability Testing

Sven Lilienthal

2009

Abstract

While usability analyses become more and more accepted for conventional software, there are many reasons told to forgo usability analyses for web-based applications and websites. Most companies dread the high monetary and personnel costs together with the unacquainted process. Nevertheless, this leads to a lowered acceptance and thereby to lowered success (Tedeschi, 1999; Fogg et al., 2001). This motivates the development and creation of an easy to use solution which enables companies and institutions to easily analyze their web systems without having to rely on external usability experts and expensive labs and equipment.

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Lilienthal S. (2009). T-PROX - A User-tracking Proxy for Usability Testing . In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8111-81-4, pages 225-231. DOI: 10.5220/0001818102250231


in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist09,
author={Sven Lilienthal},
title={T-PROX - A User-tracking Proxy for Usability Testing},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2009},
pages={225-231},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001818102250231},
isbn={978-989-8111-81-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - T-PROX - A User-tracking Proxy for Usability Testing
SN - 978-989-8111-81-4
AU - Lilienthal S.
PY - 2009
SP - 225
EP - 231
DO - 10.5220/0001818102250231