Using Concept Maps to Evaluate the Usability of APIs

Gerken, Jens; Jetter, Hans-Christian; Reiterer, Harald

Using Concept Maps to Evaluate the Usability of APIs

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gerken_etal.pdf(1.65 MB)

Datum

2010

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Proceedings of the 28th of the international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems - CHI EA '10. - New York, New York, USA : ACM Press, 2010. - S. 3937-3942. - ISBN 978-1-60558-930-5

Zusammenfassung

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are the interfaces to existing code structures, such as widgets, frameworks, or toolkits. Therefore, they very much do have an impact on the quality of the resulting system. So ensuring that developers can make the most out of them is an important challenge. However standard usability evaluation methods as known from HCI have limitations in grasping the interaction between developer and API -- the GUI, which makes this interaction obvious, is missing. In this paper we present a longitudinal approach using concept maps and a question diary to make this interaction visible and study the usability of an API over time.

Fachgebiet (DDC)

004 Informatik

Konferenz

28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems : CHI EA '10, 10. Apr. 2010 - 15. Apr. 2010, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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GERKEN, Jens, Hans-Christian JETTER, Harald REITERER, 2010. Using Concept Maps to Evaluate the Usability of APIs. 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems : CHI EA '10. Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 10. Apr. 2010 - 15. Apr. 2010. In: Proceedings of the 28th of the international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems - CHI EA '10. New York, New York, USA:ACM Press, pp. 3937-3942. ISBN 978-1-60558-930-5. Available under: doi: 10.1145/1753846.1754082

BibTex

@inproceedings{Gerken2010Using-433,
  year={2010},
  doi={10.1145/1753846.1754082},
  title={Using Concept Maps to Evaluate the Usability of APIs},
  isbn={978-1-60558-930-5},
  publisher={ACM Press},
  address={New York, New York, USA},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 28th of the international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems - CHI EA '10},
  pages={3937--3942},
  author={Gerken, Jens and Jetter, Hans-Christian and Reiterer, Harald}
}

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