Publication Details
Evaluation of User Interface Design Metrics using Generator of Realistic-Looking Dashboard Samples
aesthetics, dashboard, generator, usability guidelines, user testing
The analysis of user interfaces using quantitative metrics is a straightforward
way to quickly measure interface usability and other various design aspects (such
as the suitability of page layout or selected colors). Development and evaluation
of objective metrics corresponding with user perception, however, usually
requires a sufficiently large training set of user interface samples. Finding
real user interface samples might not be easy. Therefore, we rather use generated
samples. In such case, we need to provide a realistic-looking appearance of
samples. This paper describes a workflow of the preparation of such samples. It
presents a configurable generator based on the composition of simple widgets
according to a predefined model. It also describes a reusable library for simple
creation of widgets using capabilities of the JavaScript framework Vue.js.
Finally, we demonstrate the applicability of the generator on a generation of
dashboard samples which are used to evaluate existing metrics of interface
aesthetics and show the possibility of their improvement.
@article{BUT162076,
author="Olena {Pastushenko} and Jiří {Hynek} and Tomáš {Hruška}",
title="Evaluation of User Interface Design Metrics using Generator of Realistic-Looking Dashboard Samples",
journal="Expert Systems",
year="2021",
volume="38",
number="5",
pages="1--19",
doi="10.1111/exsy.12434",
issn="1468-0394",
url="https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/11981/"
}