Memorias de investigación
Communications at congresses:
Extending Mobile App Analytics for Usability Test Logging
Year:2017

Research Areas
  • Information technology and adata processing

Information
Abstract
Mobile application development is characterized by reduced development cycles and high time-to-market pressure. Usability evaluation in mobile applications calls for the application of cost-effective methods, specially adapted to such constraints. We propose extending the Google Analytics for Mobile Applications basic service to store specific low-level user actions of interest for usability evaluation purposes. The solution can serve both for lab usability testing, automating quantitative data gathering, and for logging real use after application release. It is based on identification of relevant user tasks and the detailed events worth gathering, instrumentation of specific code for data gathering, and subsequent data extraction for calculating relevant usability?related variables. We validated our application in a real usability test by comparing the automatically gathered data with the information gathered by the human observer. Results shows both measurements are statistically exchangeable, opening promising new ways to perform usability testing cost-effectively and at greater scale.
International
Si
Congress
IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2017)
960
Place
Bombay, India
Reviewers
Si
ISBN/ISSN
978-3-319-67686-9
10.1007/978-3-319-67687-6_9
Start Date
27/09/2017
End Date
29/09/2017
From page
114
To page
131
Human-Computer Interaction ? INTERACT 2017 (LNCS, volume 10515)
Participants

Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Ingeniería del Software
  • Centro o Instituto I+D+i: Centro de tecnología Biomédica CTB