Assessment of intelligence of user-computer interface

Abstract

In a world where business and life revolves around internet and computers, the quality of user-computer interfaces became very important. Designs of user interface become the utmost important issue since users, -which also happen to be customers-judge quality of a product by the ease of use of the product. Selection of menu language, placement of icons, buttons all contribute to the ease and intuitive nature of the interface which eventually determine the success of the software. With all this importance riding on the user quality, there needs to be an objective way of measuring quality of user interface. In this study we have developed an automatic assessment mechanism which predicts the quality of user interface by simply observing the behavior of the user while doing transactions with the computer. The index generated through this process is a relative value which can be used for comparing quality of similar software interfaces.