Multimedia Elements in a Hybrid Multi-Agent System for the Analysis of Web Usability

• Published in: Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems pp. 217 - 224
• Main Authors: Mosqueira-Rey, E., del Río, B. Baldonedo, Alonso-Ríos, D., Rodríguez-Poch, E., Prado-Gesto, D.
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• ISBN: 9783642138027; 3642138020
• ISSN: 0302-9743; 1611-3349
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13803-4_27

The widespread use of the World Wide Web by persons from different age groups, diverse cultures, and with different computer skills has put more emphasis in the process of ensuring that web sites and applications are usable. On the other hand we can see how plain text web pages have been replaced by ones in which multimedia information (images, video and audio) are an important part of them. In this context we have developed a multi-agent system for analysing web usability that performs both static and dynamic analysis of web sites. The static analysis can examine certain multimedia issues related to usability (mostly associated with images) and in this paper we also comment on the issues related with video and audio technologies.