Better understanding diverse end user website usage challenges with browser-based augmented reality approaches

Minh Hieu Vu; Joshua (Shuki) Wyman; John Grundy; Anuradha Madugalla

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-36597-3_13

Better understanding diverse end user website usage challenges with browser-based augmented reality approaches

Minh Hieu Vu, Joshua (Shuki) Wyman, John Grundy, Anuradha Madugalla

Department of Software Systems & Cybersecurity

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Abstract

Software engineers are usually quite different from their end users, especially those with a variety of accessibility related usage challenges. These include, but are not limited to, sight, hearing, cognitive, mobility, hand control, age, language and many others. A popular approach to assist developers in understanding and designing for these diverse end user accessibility challenges are ‘Augmented Reality’ (AR) browser-based plug-ins. These attempt to mimic how a user with a particular challenge or set of challenges will perceive viewing and interacting with a target web site. We review work on developing such plug-ins, summarise some of the popular AR brower-based plug-ins designed to support accessibility design and evaluation, and report results of a developer survey we conducted on their requirements and usage of such tools. We then report a detailed heuristic evaluation of a popular example, Funkify, and discuss the performance of several of its simulators on commonly used web site exemplars. Finally we identify and report a range of future research needs in this area.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - 17th International Conference, ENASE 2022 Virtual Event, April 25–26, 2022 Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Hermann Kaindl, Mike Mannion, Leszek A. Maciaszek
Place of Publication	Cham Switzerland
Publisher	Springer
Pages	269-291
Number of pages	23
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031365973
ISBN (Print)	9783031365966
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36597-3_13
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering 2022 - Online Duration: 25 Apr 2022 → 26 Apr 2022 Conference number: 17th https://www.scitepress.org/ProceedingsDetails.aspx?ID=4191yoyMdsI=&t=1 (Proceedings) https://enase.scitevents.org (Website)

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering 2022
Abbreviated title	ENASE 2022
Period	25/04/22 → 26/04/22
Internet address	https://www.scitepress.org/ProceedingsDetails.aspx?ID=4191yoyMdsI=&t=1 (Proceedings) https://enase.scitevents.org (Website)

Keywords

Accessibility
Disability simulation
Human aspects
Human computer interaction
Software engineering

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Vu, M. H., Wyman, J., Grundy, J., & Madugalla, A. (2023). Better understanding diverse end user website usage challenges with browser-based augmented reality approaches. In H. Kaindl, M. Mannion, & L. A. Maciaszek (Eds.), Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - 17th International Conference, ENASE 2022 Virtual Event, April 25–26, 2022 Revised Selected Papers (pp. 269-291). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36597-3_13

Vu, Minh Hieu ; Wyman, Joshua (Shuki) ; Grundy, John et al. / Better understanding diverse end user website usage challenges with browser-based augmented reality approaches. Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - 17th International Conference, ENASE 2022 Virtual Event, April 25–26, 2022 Revised Selected Papers. editor / Hermann Kaindl ; Mike Mannion ; Leszek A. Maciaszek. Cham Switzerland : Springer, 2023. pp. 269-291

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Vu, MH, Wyman, J, Grundy, J & Madugalla, A 2023, Better understanding diverse end user website usage challenges with browser-based augmented reality approaches. in H Kaindl, M Mannion & LA Maciaszek (eds), Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - 17th International Conference, ENASE 2022 Virtual Event, April 25–26, 2022 Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Cham Switzerland, pp. 269-291, International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering 2022, 25/04/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36597-3_13

Better understanding diverse end user website usage challenges with browser-based augmented reality approaches. / Vu, Minh Hieu; Wyman, Joshua (Shuki); Grundy, John et al.
Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - 17th International Conference, ENASE 2022 Virtual Event, April 25–26, 2022 Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Hermann Kaindl; Mike Mannion; Leszek A. Maciaszek. Cham Switzerland: Springer, 2023. p. 269-291.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

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