Predicting Task Execution Times by Deriving Enhanced Cognitive Models from User Interface Development Models

Abstract

Adaptive user interfaces are commonly used for providing different layouts and information according to the current context-of-use. However, the complexity and heterogeneity of potential users, platforms and environments lead to a combinatorial explosion of variants, making it almost impossible to foresee all potential results of adaptations at design time. In this paper we present our work on the automatic evaluation of usability aspects of adaptive user interfaces at runtime which is supposed to be used complementary to design time usability evaluation. We show how a user interface model, providing different adaptation alternatives, can be combined with a model of the current user to simulate interaction and evaluate the feasibility of different adaptations.

@inproceedings{Quade:2014:PTE:2607023.2607033,
 author = {Quade, Michael and Halbr"{u}gge, Marc and Engelbrecht, Klaus-Peter and Albayrak, Sahin and M"{o}ller, Sebastian},
 title = {Predicting Task Execution Times by Deriving Enhanced Cognitive Models from User Interface Development Models},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems},
 series = {EICS '14},
 year = {2014},
 isbn = {978-1-4503-2725-1},
 location = {Rome, Italy},
 pages = {139--148},
 numpages = {10},
 url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2607023.2607033},
 doi = {10.1145/2607023.2607033},
 acmid = {2607033},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 keywords = {automated usability evaluation, hci, model-based development, simulation, user behavior model},
}
Authors:
Michael Quade, Marc Halbrügge, Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht, Sahin Albayrak, Sebastian Möller
Category:
Conference Paper
Year:
2014
Location:
EICS '14, Rome, Italy