Trace-Based Usability Evaluation Using Aspect-Oriented Programming and Agent-Based Software Architecture

Abstract

To evaluate how people use interactive applications, many techniques and methods are proposed. In this chapter, we describe two innovative evaluation approaches that exploit the concept of traces as a way of capturing the usage of the system. The first approach uses Aspect-Oriented Programming; the second proposes an explicit coupling between agent-based architecture and evaluation agents. These two approaches are compared.