Tools for Remote Web Usability Evaluation
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The dissemination of Web applications is enormous and still growing. This raises a number of challenges for usability evaluators. Video-based analysis can be rather expensive and may provide limited results. This paper presents a discussion of what information can be provided by automatic tools for remote Web usability evaluation as well as an analysis of existing approaches, including our proposal.
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