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Chapter and Conference Paper
In Search of Dark Patterns in Chatbots
While Dark Patterns are widely present in graphical user interfaces, in this research we set out to find out whether they are also starting to appear in Chatbots. Dark Patterns are intentionally deceptive desi...
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Article
UX debt in an agile development process: evidence and characterization
The metaphor of technical debt (TD) has generated a conceptual framework on factors that weaken the quality of software and accumulate a repair cost. However, user-related aspects like user experience (UX) rec...
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Article
Dynamic detection of accessibility smells
Automatic detection of accessibility problems is mainly performed by checking for compliance with guidelines on the HTML structure of web pages. While this method can find many problems, it has limitations in ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
UX-Painter: Fostering UX Improvement in an Agile Setting
It is generally difficult in agile teams, specially those geographically distributed, to keep up with the user experience (UX) issues that emerge on each product increment. UX designers need the help of develo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Flexible Detection of Similar DOM Elements
Different research fields related to the web require detecting similarity between DOM elements. In the field of information extraction, many approaches emerged to extract structured data from web documents, mo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Flexible Web Authoring Tool for Building Mobile Learning Experiences
This paper presents a flexible web authoring tool called MoLE for teachers to build their own mobile learning experiences. MoLE allows teachers to define learning activities (set of learning tasks within a wo...
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Article
Usability improvement through A/B testing and refactoring
Usability evaluation is an essential task in web application development. There have been several attempts to integrate user-centered design with agile methods, but it is hard to synchronize their practices. U...
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Article
DataMock: An Agile Approach for Building Data Models from User Interface Mockups
In modern software development, much time is devoted and much attention is paid to the activity of data modeling and the translation of data models into databases. This has motivated the proposal of different ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
UX Challenges in GDSS: An Experience Report
In this paper we present a user experience report on a Group Decision Support System. The used system is a Collaborative framework called GRoUp Support (GRUS). The experience consists in three user tests condu...
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Article
Assessing refactorings for usability in e-commerce applications
Refactoring has been reported as a helpful technique to systematically improve non-functional attributes of software. This paper evaluates the relevance of refactoring for improving usability on web applicatio...
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Article
Improving accessibility of Web interfaces: refactoring to the rescue
Universal access should be a target for all public Web sites. However, it is very hard to achieve, and even Web applications that comply with accessibility standards may still lack usability for disabled user...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Tool for Detecting Bad Usability Smells in an Automatic Way
The refactoring technique helps developers to improve not only source code quality, but also other aspects like usability. The problems refactoring helps to solve in the specific field of web usability are con...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Extensible, Model-Driven and End-User Centric Approach for API Building
The implementation of APIs in new applications is becoming a mandatory requirement due to the increasing use of cloud-based solutions, the necessity of integration with ubiquitous applications (like Facebook o...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
MockAPI: An Agile Approach Supporting API-first Web Application Development
In the last years, agile development methodologies have been widely adopted. However, they still lack support for API requirements while, at the same time, public RESTful APIs are fueling a rapid growth of web...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards Agile Model-Driven Web Engineering
The increasing growth of the Web field has promoted the development of a plethora of Model-Driven Web Engineering (MDWE) approaches. These methodologies share a top-down approach: they start by modeling applic...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
From Requirements to Web Applications in an Agile Model-Driven Approach
Web applications are hard to build not only because of technical reasons but also because they involve many different kinds of stakeholders. Involving customers in the development process is a must, not only w...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
From Interface Mockups to Web Application Models
The process of modeling and implementing Web applications has been successfully improved by the use of Model-Driven Web Engineering (MDWE) methodologies. However, because of their traditional process models, t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Dealing with Navigation and Interaction Requirements Changes in a TDD-Based Web Engineering Approach
Web applications are well suited to be developed with agile methods. However, as they tend to change too fast, special care must be put in change management, both to satisfy customers and reduce developers loa...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Capture and Evolution of Web Requirements Using WebSpec
Develo** Web applications is a complex and time consuming process that involves different kind of people, ranging from customers to developers. Requirement artefacts play an important role as they are used b...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
From Mockups to User Interface Models: An Extensible Model Driven Approach
Sketching web applications with mockup tools is a common practice that improves the process of elicitation and validation of requirements in web applications. However, mockups are used as a “quick and dirty” w...
