Using the MetroWeb tool to improve usability quality of Web sites

Third Latin American Web Congress (LA-WEB'2005) Pub Date : 2005-10-31 DOI:10.1109/LAWEB.2005.46

Céline Mariage, J. Vanderdonckt, A. Chevalier

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Abstract

This work addresses the question of supporting Web designers in considering usability in their work in order to foster user-centered design of Web sites. With the MetroWeb tool that is described in this paper, designers can access usability guidelines contained in usability knowledge bases, and use them to design a particular Web site based on these usability guidelines. MetroWeb consists of a Java-based application helping usability experts to gather usability guidelines coming from different sources and to organize them in a structured way. It then provides designers with guidance in using these guidelines according to a semantic network of concepts structured around the notion of guideline, such as ergonomic criteria, development phase, bibliographic reference, type of Web site, type of Web page, etc. A first experiment was conducted with professional Web designers in order to evaluate their appreciation of the MetroWeb tool. They had to create two Web pages with or without the support of MetroWeb. The main results showed that designers using MetroWeb took into account more usability guidelines and made Web pages with less usability errors than designers without MetroWeb.

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使用MetroWeb工具提高网站的可用性质量

这项工作解决了支持Web设计人员在他们的工作中考虑可用性的问题，以便促进以用户为中心的Web站点设计。使用本文中描述的MetroWeb工具，设计人员可以访问包含在可用性知识库中的可用性指南，并使用它们来基于这些可用性指南设计特定的Web站点。MetroWeb由一个基于java的应用程序组成，它帮助可用性专家收集来自不同来源的可用性指南，并以结构化的方式组织它们。然后，它根据围绕指导方针概念构建的概念语义网络，如人体工程学标准、开发阶段、参考书目、网站类型、网页类型等，为设计人员提供使用这些指导方针的指导。第一个实验是由专业的网页设计师进行的，目的是评估他们对MetroWeb工具的欣赏程度。他们必须在有或没有MetroWeb支持的情况下创建两个Web页面。主要结果表明，使用MetroWeb的设计人员比不使用MetroWeb的设计人员考虑了更多的可用性准则，并且设计出的网页可用性错误更少。

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