UsabilityAdviser
UsabilityAdviser is a tool intended to improve usability and accessibility of user interfaces designed with an usixml editor. It interacts with the usixml editor to find violated usability and accessibility rules during the design of an user interface.
UsabilityAdviser is based on separating the ergonomic knowledge from the evaluation engine. Indeed, the knowledge base of usability rules is a simple text file which contains the description of rules in a formal language. This formal language is very similar to the natural language. This separation provide a dynamic and flexible structuring of this knowledge according to the rapid evolution technologies and scientific findings in the fields of ergonomics and human factors.
For the moment, UsabilityAdviser is only compatible with SketchiXml and GrafiXml. But it can easily be adapted to other tools thanks to the standard of communication which was developed.
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Requirements
You need a valid Java installation and a compatible UsiXML editor like GrafiXml or SketchiXml.
Download
You can download an executable of UsabilityAdviser for Windows here or the Jar file for other platforms here.
Author
UsabilityAdviser is developed by Patrick Vanden Bossche
Publications
- Patrick Vanden Bossche, Développement d'un outil de critique d'interface intelligent : UsabilityAdviser, M.Sc. thesis, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1 September 2006.
