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A Generic and Configurable Electronic Informer to Assist the Evaluation of Agent-Based Interactive Systems

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The evaluation of user interactive systems has been an active subject of research for many years. Many methods have been proposed but most existing evaluation methods do not take the specific architecture of an agent-based interactive system into account, nor do they focus on the coupling between the architecture and evaluation phase. In this article, we propose an agent-based architecture of interactive systems that is considered as being mixed (it is both functional and structural). On the basis of this architecture, we propose a generic and configurable model of an evaluation tool, called “electronic informer,” designed to assist evaluators in analyzing and evaluating interactive systems with such architecture.

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The present research work has been partially supported by the Ministère de l’Education Nationale, de la Recherche et de la Technologie, the Région Nord Pas-de-Calais, the FEDER (MIAOU, EUCUE, SART), the ANR ADEME (Viatic.Mobilité), and the PREDIM (MouverPerso).

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  1. LAMIH–UMR CNRS 8530, University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambrésis, Le mont Houy, F-59313 Valenciennes Cedex 9, France

    Chi Dung Tran, Houcine Ezzedine & Christophe Kolski

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  1. Escuela Politecnica Superior de Albacete, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Campus Universitario s/n, Albacete, 02071, Spain

    Victor Lopez Jaquero

  2. Escuela Politecnica Superior, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Campus Universitario s/n, Albacete, 02071, Spain

    Francisco Montero Simarro

  3. Escuela Politecnica Superior de Albacete, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Campus Universitario s/n, Albacete, 02071, Spain

    Jose Pascual Molina Masso

  4. Institut d'Administration et de Gestion, Université catholique de Louvain, Place des Doyens 1, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1348, Belgium

    Jean Vanderdonckt

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Tran, C., Ezzedine, H., Kolski, C. (2009). A Generic and Configurable Electronic Informer to Assist the Evaluation of Agent-Based Interactive Systems. In: Lopez Jaquero, V., Montero Simarro, F., Molina Masso, J., Vanderdonckt, J. (eds) Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces VI. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-206-1_23

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