Context: In recent years, many Usability Evaluation Methods (UEMs) have been employed toevaluate Web applications. However, many of these applications still do not meet most customers’usability expectations and many companies have folded as a result of not considering Webusability issues. No studies currently exist with regard to either the use of usability evaluationmethods for...

This chapter addresses the design of community-based Web applications using the modeldriven approach and design patterns. A set of best practices, identified by reviewing a number of top-rank Web 2.0 Web applications is illustrated and turned into a set of design patterns, expressed with a Model-Driven approach. A suitable development process, with specific focus on community-based application ...

introduction: the increasing development of software in e-learning has opened a new horizon in education. the current research was conducted to assess the effect of web-based teaching of anatomy course on medical students’ attitude, perceived ease of use, perceived benefit and satisfaction with teaching method at kermanshah university of medical sciences. methods: the present study was an inter...

This paper reports on results gathered during a case study using a web maintenance tool called Perlbot. The main objective of the study is to observe the history of modifications made on various web documents. Based on selected metrics, we collect data with respect to how such sites are maintained and evolve. The data gathered support our hypothesis that there is a worldwide tendency to accumul...