Tamulator: A tool to manage task model-based usability evaluation in development environments

Abstract

We present the TaMUlator tool for managing and automating an end-to-end task model-based usability evaluation at the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) level through providing a set of APIs and interfaces for tagging tasks and variables, creating task models written in a formal task modeling language TaMoGolog, defining evaluation experiments, recording experiment data, and automatically analyzing the results. We found that using TaMUlator tool by development teams enables ongoing professional usability evaluation of the developed products. © 2011 IADIS.