Leveraging graphical user interfaces to facilitate selection of elements in web-pages

Bachelor thesis (2021)

Authors

P.J. van Wijk Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Contributors

D.M. Maxwell Web Information Systems - EEMCS (mentor)
C. Hauff Web Information Systems - EEMCS (graduation committee member)
G. Iosifidis Embedded Systems - EEMCS (coach)
Faculty
Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Copyright: © 2021 Paul van Wijk
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Published Date

01-07-2021

Language

English

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Abstract

Web-based interaction logging is an important concept for understanding user behavior on web-pages. LogUI is a powerful modern framework for logging a user's interactions. Integrating such a framework in web-pages requires the construction of configuration objects to define selectors that indicate which elements on a web-page should be under observation. Writing such configuration object can be a tedious task for researchers who are less experienced in programming. Therefore, this paper addresses the potential of a graphical user interface (GUI) to simplify the creation of configuration objects. An experimental GUI-based tool was devised to aid a user in the process of producing configuration objects in an interactive fashion. Results from conducting a small scale user study show that users are capable of creating configurations utilizing the GUI-based tool with an average accuracy of 70% measured in terms of selector equivalence. User experience evaluation shows that the tool is perceived as efficient.