Rights:Copyright (C) 2008, Australian Computer Society, Inc. This paper appeared at the 9th Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC2008), Wollongong, NSW, Australia, January 2008. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 76. B. Plimmer, G. Weber, Eds. Australian Computer Society Inc
Abstract:
Developing an appropriate user interface architecture
for supporting a system's tasks is critical to the system's
overall usability. While there are principles to
guide architectural design, confirming that the correct
decisions are made can involve the collection and
analysis of lots of test data. We are developing a testing
environment that will automatically compare and
contrast the actual user interaction data against the
existing user interface architectural models. This can
help a designer more clearly understand how the actual
tasks performed relate to the proposed architecture,
and enhances feedback between different design
artifacts.
