The bloodhound project: Automating discovery of web usability issues using the InfoScent™ simulator

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 505-512

  Chi, Ed H ^a   Rosien, Adam ^a   Supattanasiri, Gesara ^a   Williams, Amanda ^a   Royer, Christiaan ^a   Chow, Celia ^a   Robles, Erica ^a   Dalal, Brinda ^a   Chen, Julie ^a   Cousins, Steve ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Information Foraging; Information Scent; Usability Prediction; User Modeling; User Simulation; Web based Services

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES; WEB BROWSERS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; USABILITY ENGINEERING; WEBSITES;

USABILITY PREDICTION;

WORLD WIDE WEB; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

INFORMATION FORAGING; INFORMATION SCENT; USABILITY PREDICTION; USER MODELING; USER SIMULATION; WEB-BASED SERVICE;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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