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This paper describes the first results of a work which aims to join two different levels in order to evaluate user interfaces. The two levels are task specification and user physical actions. To achieve this goal we pass through an intermediate level: the formal specification of the system considered. The approach entails building an interactor-based LOTOS formal specification of the system starting from task specification. Then a tool, which we have developed, gathers information from both low and high abstraction levels and evaluates the user interactions. The behaviour and results of this tool are shown. We also present how the tool has been applied to Map, a real application used for presenting maps.
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Paterno, F., Sciacchitano, M.S., Lowgren, J. (1995). A User Interface Evaluation Mapping Physical User Actions to Task-Driven Formal Specifications. In: Palanque, P., Bastide, R. (eds) Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems ’95. Eurographics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9437-9_4
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