@InProceedings{VasconcelosBald:2012:ToAuEv,
               author = "Vasconcelos, Leandro Guarino de and Baldochi, Laercio Augusto",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and 
                         {Universidade Federal de Itajub{\'a} (UNIFEI)}",
                title = "Towards an automatic evaluation of Web applications",
            booktitle = "Proceedings...",
                 year = "2012",
         organization = "ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 27. (SIGAPP).",
             abstract = "Evaluating the usability of computer applications using 
                         traditional laboratory-based tests is costly and time consuming. 
                         For modern Web applications, usually developed, tested and 
                         deployed in Internet Time, this approach is simply not feasible. A 
                         more effective way to evaluate the usability of Web applications 
                         consists in gathering information from the users interactions and 
                         automatically processing this data in order to detect usability 
                         problems in the execution of predefined tasks. The reported 
                         solutions based on this approach usually fail on providing 
                         efficient tools for the definition of tasks, specially in large 
                         and dynamic Web applications. In order to tackle this problem, we 
                         developed USABILICS, a system targeted for the automatic remote 
                         evaluation of usability based on an interface model. The proposed 
                         model allows the definition of tasks using a simple and intuitive 
                         approach, which can be applied to large and dynamic Web 
                         applications. USABILICS analyzes the execution of tasks by 
                         calculating the similarity among sequence of events produced by 
                         users and those previously captured by evaluators. Based on this 
                         analysis, USABILICS provides an usability index, as well as 
                         recommendations for solving usability problems detected on the 
                         execution of each task.",
  conference-location = "Riva del Garda (Trento)",
      conference-year = "2012",
                label = "lattes: 8626122636195184 1 VasconcelosBALD:2012:ToAuEv",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "Vasconcelos_towards.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "30 abr. 2024"
}