Abstract
In the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community, the usual way to measure usability is through a user test. The disadvantage of this way is that the system must be implemented before performing the test. As a consequence, developers must solve the usability issues in the last stages of the development process. Currently, the model-driven software development is gaining popularity as a solution to reduce changes impact. In this paper, a usability model is proposed to evaluate early usability from the conceptual schemas that represents a Web Application. This approach allows to incorporate usability improvements before the implementation of the final web application. We evaluate the usability of artefacts modelled with OOWS, a model-driven web engineering method. In addition, two case studies are used to verify the instruments proposed to evaluate our early usability model.
This work has been developed with the support of MEC under the project SESAMO TIN2007-62894.
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Panach, J.I., Condori-Fernández, N., Valverde, F., Aquino, N., Pastor, O. (2008). Towards an Early Usability Evaluation for Web Applications. In: Cuadrado-Gallego, J.J., Braungarten, R., Dumke, R.R., Abran, A. (eds) Software Process and Product Measurement. Mensura IWSM 2007 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4895. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85553-8_3
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