A Family of User Interface Consistency Checking Tools

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dc.contributor.authorMahajan, Rohiten_US
dc.contributor.authorShneiderman, Benen_US
dc.date.accessioned2004-05-31T21:03:24Z
dc.date.available2004-05-31T21:03:24Z
dc.date.created1995-04en_US
dc.date.issued1998-10-15en_US
dc.description.abstractIncorporating evaluation metrics with GUI development tools will help designers create consistent interfaces in the future. Complexity in design of interfaces makes efficient evaluation impossible by a single consistency checking evaluation tool. Our f ocus is on developing a family of evaluation tools in order to make the evaluation process less cumbersome. We have developed a dialog box typeface and color table to facilitate detection of anomalies in color, font, font size, and font style. Concordance tools have been developed to spot variant capitalization and abbreviations globally in the interface and specifically in the button widgets. As buttons are frequently used widgets, a button layout table has been created to spot any inconsistencies in height, width and relative position between a given group of buttons if present. Finally, a terminology basket tool has been created to identify unwanted synonyms of computer related terms used in the interface which may be misleading to the end user. (Also cross-referenced as CAR-TR-770) (Also cross-referenced as ISR-TR-95-52)en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/432
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtTech Reports in Computer Science and Engineeringen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtComputer Science Department Technical Reportsen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUM Computer Science Department; CS-TR-3472en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCAR-TR-770en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesISR-TR-95-52en_US
dc.titleA Family of User Interface Consistency Checking Toolsen_US
dc.typeTechnical Reporten_US

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