Product Details
Dashboard Analyzer : a tool for analysis of dashboard visual characteristics
Created: 2018
dashboard, usability, evaluation, aesthetics, guideline review, usability
metrics, subjective perception
Dashboard analyzer is a Java application which provides tools for processing and
analyzing of screenshots of dashboard user interfaces. It was created as part
dissertation in Brno University of Technology:
http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~ihynek/dashboards/
It provides following functionality:
- loads images (from file or URL)
- detects (automatically/manually using the interactive editor) regions which
represent visually dominant objects (with respect to Gestalt laws /
subjective perception of the user)
- performs image operations and filters (gray-scale, posterization,
thresholding, Hough-transform, etc.), show image histograms
- performs pixel-based metrics analyzing UI characteristics (colorfulness,
pixel-based balance, symmetry, etc...)
- performs object-based metrics analyzing UI characteristics (Ngo's metrics of
aesthetics and their modifications)
- processes folders containing various UI descriptions of regions (analysis of
subjective perception of users, generating heatmaps, etc.)