Leveraging graphical user interfaces to facilitate selection of elements in web-pages

Leveraging graphical user interfaces to facilitate selection of elements in web-pages

van Wijk, Paul (TU Delft Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science; TU Delft Software Technology)

Maxwell, D.M. (mentor)
Hauff, C. (graduation committee)
Iosifidis, G. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Computer Science and Engineering

CSE3000 Research Project

2021-07-01

Web-based interaction logging is an important concept for understanding user behavior on web-pages. LogUI is a powerful modern framework for logging a user's interactions. Integrating such a framework in web-pages requires the construction of configuration objects to define selectors that indicate which elements on a web-page should be under observation. Writing such configuration object can be a tedious task for researchers who are less experienced in programming. Therefore, this paper addresses the potential of a graphical user interface (GUI) to simplify the creation of configuration objects. An experimental GUI-based tool was devised to aid a user in the process of producing configuration objects in an interactive fashion. Results from conducting a small scale user study show that users are capable of creating configurations utilizing the GUI-based tool with an average accuracy of 70% measured in terms of selector equivalence. User experience evaluation shows that the tool is perceived as efficient.

graphical user interfaces
web-based interaction logging
LogUI
selectors

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Student theses

bachelor thesis

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