System for evaluating usability and user experience by analyzing repeated patterns

Authors:
Young Bin Kim;Shin Jin Kang;Chang Hun Kim
Affiliations:
Interdisciplinary Program in Visual Information Processing, Korea University, Korea;School of Games, Hongik University, Korea;Department of Computer and Radio Communications Engineering, Korea University, Korea
Venue:
DUXU'13 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability: design philosophy, methods, and tools - Volume Part I
Year:
2013

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Abstract

In this paper, a new system for evaluating interface usability through the analysis of repeated patterns is proposed. The system can be a valuable tool for verifying interfaces and in evaluating their usability by users, both of which are necessary stages in the development and operation of software. This paper concentrates on the repeated patterns that occur when users use an interface. Extracting these repeated patterns and analyzing them could enhance the development and usability of interfaces. Through experiments that applied the proposed system to several kinds of software, it was confirmed that problems with interfaces can be understood, and usability can be improved without requiring complicated analyses of user logs.