Title
Mobile interaction analysis: towards a novel concept for interaction sequence mining
Abstract
Identifying intentions of users when they launch an application on their smartphone, and understanding which tasks they actually execute, is a key problem in mobile usability analysis. First, knowing which tasks users actually execute is required for calculating common usability metrics such as task efficiency, error rates and effectiveness. Second, understanding how users perform these tasks is important for developers in order to validate designed interaction sequences for tasks (e.g. sequential steps required to successfully perform and complete a task). In this paper, we describe a novel approach for automatically extracting and grouping interaction sequences from users, assigning them to predefined tasks (e.g. writing an email) and visualising them in an intuitive way. Thus, we are able to find out if the designer's intention of how users should perform designed tasks, and how they actually execute them in the field, matches, and where it differs. This allows us to figure out if users find alternate ways of performing certain tasks, which contributes to the application design process. Moreover, if the users' perception of tasks differs from the designer's intention, we lay the foundation for recognising issues users may have while executing them.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2628363.2628384
Mobile HCI
Keywords
Field
DocType
usability task identification,pattern matching,navigation sequence visualisation,multimedia information systems,clustering
Computer science,Usability,Human–computer interaction,Design process,Mobile interaction,Sequential Pattern Mining,Pattern matching,Perception,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.58
17
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Florian Lettner1486.14
Christian Grossauer2111.79
Clemens Holzmann332630.64