Automated and unsupervised user interaction logging as basis for usability evaluation of mobile applications

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 118-127

  Lettner, Florian ^a   Holzmann, Clemens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES UPPER AUSTRIA   (Austria)

Author keywords

mobile interfaces; software toolkit; usability metrics

Indexed keywords

EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; HEURISTIC EVALUATION; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MOBILE INTERFACE; MOBILE USER INTERFACE; SOFTWARE TOOLKITS; SOURCE CODES; USABILITY EVALUATION; USABILITY METRICS; USABILITY TESTS; USER INTERACTION; WALKTHROUGHS;

MOBILE COMPUTING; USER INTERFACES;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84873424782     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2428955.2428983     Document Type: Conference Paper

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