An HTML analyzer for the study of web usability

This paper presents an HTML analyzer for the study of Web usability. The analyzer parses HTML code in order to extract usability information from Web pages. For usability aspects that can be analyzed automatically, the analyzer draws conclusions and offers suggestions. For more subjective usability...

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Published in2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics pp. 1224 - 1229
Main Authors Alonso-Rios, D., Luis-Vazquez, I., Mosqueira-Rey, E., Moret-Bonillo, V., del Rio, B.B.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.10.2009
Subjects
Computer languages
Computer science
Cybernetics
Data mining
Guidelines
HTML
HTML analysis
human-computer interaction
Information analysis
USA Councils
Usability
Web pages
web usability
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Summary:This paper presents an HTML analyzer for the study of Web usability. The analyzer parses HTML code in order to extract usability information from Web pages. For usability aspects that can be analyzed automatically, the analyzer draws conclusions and offers suggestions. For more subjective usability issues, it assists the expert by presenting relevant information in a convenient way. Many similar applications exist, but they mostly focus on well-known usability problems and pay little attention to subtler aspects. More alarmingly, they suffer from basic usability problems. Our results show that our analyzer examines several usability aspects - related to ease of navigation, understandability, flexibility, and compatibility - that are generally ignored by the other tools.
ISBN:9781424427932
1424427932
ISSN:1062-922X
2577-1655
DOI:10.1109/ICSMC.2009.5345901