Assessing usability problems in Latin-American academic webpages with cognitive walkthroughs and datamining techniques

  • Authors:
  • María Paula González;Jesús Lorés;Antoni Granollers

  • Affiliations:
  • Universitat de Lleida, Lérida, Spain and Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina;-;Universitat de Lleida, Lérida, Spain

  • Venue:
  • UI-HCII'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Usability and internationalization
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Qualitative usability evaluation is usually included within the Evaluation Stage in Usability Engineering through a Qualitative Usability Testing process QUT. This QUT process includes the application of methods that have been defined focusing on the evaluation of a particular interactive system, becoming highly expensive when a context of use has to be evaluated (by analyzing a large number of interfaces belonging to that context) in order to detect common usability problems from a qualitative viewpoint. This paper presents the QUTCKDD methodology which incorporate techniques from Knowledge Discovery in Databases, extending the existing QUT process in order to solve the above situation. To illustrate the QUTCKDD methodology, an experimentation related to a particular Latin-American context of use is also discussed.