LEARNABILITY AND ROBUSTNESS OF USER INTERFACES - Towards a Formal Analysis of Usability Design Principles

Steinar Kristoffersen

2008

Abstract

The paper is concerned with automatic usability assessment, based on heuristic principles. The objective is to lay the ground, albeit still rather informally, of a program of assessing the usability of an interactive system using formal methods. Further research can then extend this into an algebra of interactive systems.

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Kristoffersen S. (2008). LEARNABILITY AND ROBUSTNESS OF USER INTERFACES - Towards a Formal Analysis of Usability Design Principles . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8111-52-4, pages 261-268. DOI: 10.5220/0001869402610268


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@conference{icsoft08,
author={Steinar Kristoffersen},
title={LEARNABILITY AND ROBUSTNESS OF USER INTERFACES - Towards a Formal Analysis of Usability Design Principles},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,},
year={2008},
pages={261-268},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001869402610268},
isbn={978-989-8111-52-4},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,
TI - LEARNABILITY AND ROBUSTNESS OF USER INTERFACES - Towards a Formal Analysis of Usability Design Principles
SN - 978-989-8111-52-4
AU - Kristoffersen S.
PY - 2008
SP - 261
EP - 268
DO - 10.5220/0001869402610268