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WebQuilt: A Framework for Capturing and Visualizing the Web Experience

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posted on 2001-01-01, 00:00 authored by Jason I Hong, Jeffrey Heer, Sarah Waterson, James A. Landay
WebQuilt is a web logging and visualization system that helps web design teams run usability tests (both local and remote) and analyze the collected data. Logging is done through a proxy, overcoming many of the problems with server-side and client-side logging. Captured usage traces can be aggregated and visualized in a zooming interface that shows the web pages people viewed. The visualization also shows the most common paths taken through the website for a given task, as well as the optimal path for that task as designated by the designer. This paper discusses the architecture of WebQuilt and also describes how it can be extended for new kinds of analyses and visualizations.

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    usability evaluationlog file analysisweb visualizationweb proxyWebQuiltApplied Computer Science

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