Web UsabilityOverview of WebMetrics

• Goal: To create a methodology for improving the usability of web sites and associated support tools.

• Approach: rapid, remote, automated

  • Usability syntax checking tools
  • Usability testing tools for usability engineers
  • Case studies to identify tool requirements or to validate tools
  • Research to support new tools, e.g.,
    • Cultural markers
    • User log visualizations

• Visualization of user log data is critical to analysis

  • VISVIP is a visualization of user paths through URLs on a web site collected by WEBVIP

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