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

Bachelor Thesis (2021)
Author(s)

P.J. van Wijk (TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)

Contributor(s)

David Maxwell – Mentor (TU Delft - Web Information Systems)

C. Hauff – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Web Information Systems)

George Iosifidis – Coach (TU Delft - Embedded Systems)

Faculty
Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Copyright
© 2021 Paul van Wijk
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Publication Year
2021
Language
English
Copyright
© 2021 Paul van Wijk
Graduation Date
01-07-2021
Awarding Institution
Delft University of Technology
Project
CSE3000 Research Project
Programme
Computer Science and Engineering
Faculty
Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
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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.

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