A RESTful web service to estimating time requirements for web forms. (1st January 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Martin, Ludger
• Is Part Of: International journal of knowledge and web intelligence. Volume 5:Number 1(2014)
• Page Start: 62
• Page End: 75
• Publication Date: 2014-01-01
• Subjects: web usability -- web forms -- HTML input elements -- RESTful web services -- knowledge extraction; Information retrieval -- Periodicals; Web site development -- Periodicals; Internet programming -- Periodicals; 004.67805
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1755-8255

Abstract

It is important to know whether a website or web application is usable. What you need are statistics about how the website is used. Such statistics usually include information about how much time a web user spends on a web page. But to know whether those dwell times are acceptable you will need reference values. This paper provides and discusses such reference values based on a research study. To allow automatic analysis of input elements a web service is presented to reveal any possible element. Using this service and the results of our study, any kind of HTML/HTML5 input elements in a web form can be analysed.