Abstract

In this paper we describe an approach to efficiently evaluate the usability of an interactive application that has been realized to support various platforms and modalities. Therefore we combine our Multi-Access Service Platform (MASP), a model-based runtime environment to offer multimodal user interfaces with the MeMo workbench which is a tool supporting an automated usability analysis. Instead of deriving a system model by reverse-engineering or annotating screenshots for the automated usability analysis, we use the semantics of the runtime models of the MASP. This allows us to reduce the evaluation effort by automating parts of the testing process for various combinations of platforms and user groups that should be addressed by the application. Furthermore, by testing the application at runtime, the usability evaluation can also consider system dynamics and information that are unavailable at design time.

@INPROCEEDINGS{Feuerstack2008b,
  author = {Sebastian Feuerstack and Marco Blumendorf and Maximilian Kern and
	Michael Kruppa and Michael Quade and Mathias Runge and Sahin Albayrak},
  title = {Automated Usability Evaluation during Model-based Interactive System
	Development},
  booktitle = {Accepted for 7th International workshop on TAsk MOdels and DIAgrams
	(TAMODIA 2008)},
  year = {2008},
  address = {Pisa, Italy},
  month = {September 25-26}
}