GDL(ID:4969/gdl001)

Began: 2000

Guideline Definition Language

References:

Beirekdar, A.; Vanderdonckt, J.; Noirhomme-Fraiture, M. A Framework and a Language for Usability Automatic Evaluation of Web Sites by Static Analysis of HTML Source Code, Chapter 29, in Proceedings of 4th Int. Conf. on Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces CADUI’2002 (Valenciennes, 15-17 mai 2002), Kluwer Academics Pub., Dordrecht, 2002, pp. 337-348 view details Abstract: Usability guidelines are supposed to help web designers to design usable sites.Unfortunately, studies carried out that applying these guidelines by designersis difficult, essentially because of the way of structuring or formulating them.One possible way to help designers in their task is to provide them with toolsthat evaluate the designed site (during or after design) and alerts them aboutusability errors. Ideally, these tools would support an appropriate guidelinesdefinition language that enables structuring any guideline in an evaluation-oriented form. In this paper we propose a framework and guideline definitionlanguage for usability (automatic) evaluation.