A user-tracing architecture for modeling interaction with the world wide web

  • Authors:
  • Peter Pirolli;Wai-Tat Fu;Robert Reeder;Stuart K. Card

  • Affiliations:
  • PARC, Palo Alto, California;PARC, Palo Alto, California;PARC, Palo Alto, California;PARC, Palo Alto, California

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We have developed a methodology for studying and analyzing the psychology of users performing ecologically valid WWW tasks. A user trace is a record of all significant states and events in the user-WWW interaction based on eye tracking data, application-level logs, and think-aloud protocols. A user-tracing architecture has been implemented for developing simulation models of user-WWW interaction and for comparing a simulation model (SNIF-ACT) against user-trace data. The user tracing architecture compares each action of the SNIF-ACT simulation directly against observed user actions. The model and architecture have been used to successfully match detailed user trace data from four users working on two tasks each.