Author:
Sven Lilienthal
Affiliation:
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Keyword(s):
Usability, Web, Evaluation, Testing, Web based, Proxy, User interfaces, Tracking, Web interfaces, Web applications.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Usability and Ergonomics
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User Modeling
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Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Interfaces and Applications
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.